The book review digest, Volume 03, 1907
Part 3 is a very extended list of contributions to periodicals.... An
appendix contains an account of two plays by James which have been staged in London.”—Nation.
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“So far as we have been able to test it, Mr. Phillips’s work is admirably done, and the amount of research must have been very considerable.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 37. Ja. 10, ’07. 560w.
“Mr. Phillips ... seems to have done his work with satisfactory patience and care:” Edward Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 1210w.
=Phillips, Stephen.= Nero. **$1.25. Macmillan.
6–7415.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The utmost that can be said of this play as a whole is that it will not detract from Mr. Phillips’s reputation.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 572. Mr. 9. ’07. 400w.
* =Phillpotts, Eden.= Folk afield. †$1.50. Putnam.
7–32559.
Fourteen stories of love and adventure on sea and land which draw color from the sun, sea, and mountains of the South of France, of Italy and of North Africa. One of the best is “Souvenir de Maupassant” in which the heroine is the beautiful Kabyle girl pictured with all the fascination of her oriental heritage.
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“We are glad to have this collection, as it exhibits the author in an unusual rôle, and gives us a larger impression of him.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 686. N. 30. 210w.
“In ‘Souvenir de Maupassant,’ Mr. Phillpotts offers most of that imaginative suggestion which is the short story’s highest merit; and here he shows himself not merely the patient and eclectic recorder of the scene and the hour, but the artist in description, whose words make nature live again.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 251. Ag. 16, ’07. 370w.
“Here is a miscellany of short stories, in various moods and keys, but of no marked power.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 446. N. 14, ’07. 360w.
“The backgrounds are vivid in color and very realistic.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= My garden. (Country life lib.) *$3.75. Scribner.
7–8530.
Enthusiasm abounds in Mr. Phillpotts’ garden book with prejudices born of individuality and experience. It demands that a real gardener shall love nurserymen’s catalogues and shall abhor butterflies. In his garden of only an acre he has a thousand genera from all parts of the world, and his Devonshire sunshine seems to foster their growth almost magically.
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“He knows how to make a garden, and he knows how to write about it.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 621. N. 17. 380w.
“The whole book will signify nothing except to gardeners; but they will enjoy it.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 288. D. 24, ’06. 630w.
“Is certainly a pleasure to the eye, and we find its leaves besprinkled with a pleasant humor here and there. The general reader, however, will shy at the constant stream of technical botanical names. The book contains many valuable bits of information for the amateur, but it has no Index.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 448. N. 22, ’06. 140w.
=Phillpotts, Eden.= Whirlwind. †$1.50. McClure.
7–4812.
Mr. Phillpotts’ “standard is a high one. His method is conceived on a large scale. It is no other than to bring all the aspects of nature—the changing sky, with its range of colours, the wind that blows across his Devon moors, the trees, the flowers, the animals, all the denizens of earth—into league with him in telling one great story of passion or love or disaster.” (Acad.) “In his theme Mr. Phillpotts has enlarged the ‘eternal triangle’ of one woman and two men into a case of one woman loved by three men and herself honestly loving two of the men and married to one of them. This must be admitted to be a new complication, warranted to tax even the ingenuities of as keen a student of human nature as Mr. Phillpotts, and requiring no little delicacy of perception and feeling for its acceptable solution.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“There is a lack of inevitability about the final tragedy, and that lack lends to the tragedy an element of sordidness which is belittling.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 95. Ja. 26, ’07. 460w.
“It will be seen that while Mr. Phillpotts runs the risk, as often, of falling into melodrama, he keeps himself out of that pit by the artistry of his handling and the dignity of his characterization.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 129. F. 2. 450w.
“Mr. Phillpotts has never given us anything so effectively composed as the present novel. In its culminating situation the action moves serenely upon the heights of real tragedy, and leaves one with the same richly complex yet elevated sense of peace.” Harry James Smith.
+ + =Atlan.= 100: 127. Jl. ’07. 1350w.
“Is not to be numbered among his strongest books. There is less spontaneity of character drawing; his men and his women lack the vital individuality of the earlier volumes; they suggest something stereotyped and worked over from earlier impressions. The central plot is not merely repellent, but difficult of acceptance.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
− =Bookm.= 25: 500. Jl. ’07. 380w.
“It is a story that more than ever makes us feel that Mr. Hardy has found a worthy successor.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 396. Je. 16, ’07. 300w.
“Attempts to put a halo of self-sacrifice around a woman’s frailty, and the result is one of the most unconvincing stories he ever wrote.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
− =Forum.= 39: 118. Jl. ’07. 370w.
“Eden Phillpotts’s new novel is his masterpiece.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1090. My. 9, ’07. 780w.
“Eden Phillpotts’ last epic of the Dartmoor is beyond question the greatest of his angry masterpieces of that region.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 20w.
“So long as their lives proceed quietly the book is delightful, and the true tragedy of its end is the tragedy of a fine novel spoilt.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 29. Ja. 25, ’07. 1090w.
“It is to be regretted that the writer did not more nearly confine himself to the main theme. The supernumerary persons ... are too many and too much in the way.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 415. My. 2, ’07. 400w.
“Here is the ‘Whirlwind’ ... thrashing out the same familiar subjects with still enough of freshness and originality to make the reading of it an unexpectedly pleasing task.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 191. Mr. 30, ’07. 570w.
“At his best and at his worst—at his best in true and faithful presentation of the Dartmoor country and the Dartmoor rustics, at his worst because there are breaks in the psychology, inconsistencies between character and action, abrupt tragedy more startling than real.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 254. Je. 1, ’07. 140w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 765. Je. ’07. 90w.
=Phillpotts, Eden, and Bennett, Enoch Arnold.= Doubloons. †$1.50. McClure.
6–39024.
A joint “light-hearted, mile-a-minute detective story” (Nation) which abounds in the local color of the West Indies.
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“There is much clever invention and some charming descriptions of nature, which are quite out of place, but the novel, as a whole, is a failure, and does not arrest the attention.”
+ − =Acad.= 71: 503. N. 17, ’06. 130w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 18. Ja. ’07.
“Despite Mr. Phillpotts’ spurt, we cannot follow the narrative so zealously as we should like, and the story drags out to a lame conclusion.”
− =Ath.= 1906, 2: 687. D. 1. 210w.
“Some latent humor may be observed in the intense seriousness with which the wild piece of sensationalism is worked out.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 148. F. 2. 160w.
“The London part of the story is better than its sequel, and provides a thrill for every chapter. After a while the complication becomes so great that there is nothing for it but to cut loose and to take refuge in foreign parts. Meanwhile all sorts of loose ends are left hanging, and some of them are not gathered up at all.” Wm. M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 42: 144. Mr. 1, ’07. 150w.
“The effect of such a skilful and enthralling plot is heightened by the other features of the story, especially by its delightful vein of satire.” Herbert W. Horwill.
+ + =Forum.= 38: 549. Ap. ’07. 430w.
− + =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 130w.
“The story differs from the average detective mystery only in being quicker, more amusing, and in covering a wider geographical field.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 441. N. 22, ’06. 320w.
“It has achieved the difficult task of a thoroughly original plot with a unique criminal.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 813. D. 1, ’06. 530w.
“The authors seem to have fallen between two stools by combining an exciting tale of crime and treasure-seeking with a strain of burlesque.”
− =Outlook.= 84: 711. N. 24, ’06. 150w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 128. Ja. ’07. 50w.
“The book is certainly a first-class detective story; but we miss from the mixture the peculiar qualities of Mr. Eden Phillpotts.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 938. D. 8, ’06. 250w.
=Phyfe, William Henry P.= Napoleon: the return from Saint Helena. 8 il. **$1. Putnam.
7–20318.
An informing account of the removal of the Emperor’s remains from Saint Helena to France in 1840; together with a description of his tomb in the Hôtel des invalides in Paris.
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=Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 600. N. ’07. 70w.
Reviewed by Henry E. Bourne.
=Dial.= 43: 89. Ag. 16, ’07. 310w.
=Nation.= 85: 57. Jl. 18, ’07. 60w.
“The book is written in excellent taste, very simply and contains many facts which students of the Emperor’s career will find interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 416. Je. 29, ’07. 190w.
=Pickering, Sidney.= Basket of fate. †$1.50. Longmans.
“Mr. Pickering delineates no wonderful hero or heroine, but just ‘nice’ people, and people who are ‘not nice’ as we meet them in life. The middle-aged man who loves, almost against his will, the fresh English girl who can live near pitch, yet not allow the hem of her skirt to be soiled, supplies the interest, being backed by a scheming half-sister and her former lover.”—Ath.
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“This is a book to be enjoyed at the fireside rather than criticised in serious style.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 767. D. 15. 130w.
“For the tale ... is constructed and told with much skill. The characters, even the minor ones, are cleverly drawn and made to reveal themselves by their speech and actions.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 891. D. 22, ’06. 590w.
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 647. N. 24, ’06. 150w.
“Not particularly remarkable for originality, but brisk and pleasant reading,”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 731. N. 10, ’06. 200w.
=Pickworth, Charles N.= Slide rule. $1. Van Nostrand.
A tenth edition of a well known book in which “the text appears to be simplified and improved, there is a large number of illustrative examples from various phases of engineering calculation, and some few of the numerous modified and special slide rules are described.” (Engin. N.)
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+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 85. Ja. 17, ’07. 240w.
=Pier, Arthur Stanwood.= Harding of St. Timothy’s. †$1.50. Houghton.
6–33574.
“A very good story of school life about boys in their middle and later teens.... The scene is laid in a big boys’ school ... in New England. The story is largely concerned with the athletic side of school life, and shows the influence which can be exerted unconsciously among a lot of boys by one who is always frank and manly and honorable.”—N. Y. Times.
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“A novel ... with a wholesome flavor and a genuine appeal to boys.”
+ =Lit. D.= 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 607. S. 29, ’06. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 822. D. 1. ’06. 100w.
=Pier, Arthur Stanwood.= Young in heart. **$1.25. Houghton.
7–16383.
“Comprises eight essays in observation of the writer’s fellow mortals, their excellences and defects, their successes and failures, their work and their play. Particularly strong has the author shown himself in what may be called the psychology of self-conceit.”—Dial.
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“Enjoyment of these agreeable and often illuminating studies in human nature ... would be more nearly perfect did they reveal a finer sense of the niceties of language.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 317. My. 16, ’07. 380w.
“A delightful little book which justifies its title. The author is certainly young in heart, and his outlook on the world is hospitable and comprehensive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 320. My. 18, ’07. 300w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 90w.
=Pier, Garrett Chatfield.= Egyptian antiquities in the Pier collection. *$4. Univ. of Chicago press.
6–41525.
=pt. 1.= “The first volume ... consists of specimens represented in twenty-two plates, and includes objects in glazed pottery, flint and other stones, ivory and other materials. There are pendants, ornaments, inlays, and amulets, but the chief place is given to more than two hundred scarabs, seals, and cylinders. The catalogue describes the articles which the plates picture.”—Nation.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 12: 915. Jl. ’07. 150w. (Review of pt. 1.)
=Ind.= 61: 1352. D. 6, ’06. 230w. (Review of pt. 1.)
“The whole is a conscientious and useful piece of work, free from ostentation and creditably performed. The value of the book is increased by the excellence of the reproduction of the legends and devices on the scarabs.”
+ + − =Nation.= 83: 447. N. 22, ’06. 240w. (Review of pt. 1.)
“The disadvantages of the book are such as the author can easily remedy in the succeeding parts, and we hope that he will continue his plan to its end.” H. H.
+ + − =Nature.= 76: 148. Je. 13, ’07. 920w. (Review of pt. 1.)
=Pierce, Ernest Frederic.= Traveller’s Joy. †$1.50. Dutton.
7–37555.
“The Traveller’s Joy” is an inn of the South Downs where a young writer, Anthony Penrose spends a summer and falls in love with Madge Weston, the sister of a college chum and the niece of his publisher. It is full of the wealth of summer and invincible youth.
* * * * *
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 330w.
“The book is as fresh and as wholesome as a spring morning; its worst faults are those of inexperience.”
+ − =Spec.= 96: 949. Je. 16, ’06. 820w.
=Pierce, Franklin.= Tariff and the trusts. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–4381.
In this treatise the author “attempts to show ... how the Dingley tariff has been the direct cause of the rise and growth of hundreds of oppressive capitalistic combinations. In the course of his argument he institutes comparisons with foreign governments and deduces many illustrations from the tariff history of those countries, particularly England and Germany.”—R. of Rs.
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“The author finds the tariff the chief cause for the oppression of corporate monopoly. It is here that the logic is weak; the analysis of the inconsistencies of the tariff is keen, and for the most part justified, but little evidence is given of the causal relation between the tariff and the great trusts which defy competition.” D. R. D.
− + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 933. Jl. ’07. 380w.
“Clear, forceful, controversial.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 126. My. ’07.
“The book contains the most startling array of facts.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 645. My. ’07. 670w.
“The argument is very one-sided, but is so well put together that the stand-patters cannot well afford to neglect it.” Max West.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 121. S. 1, ’07. 250w.
“The author’s arguments based upon the comparison of the volume of exports and imports at different periods and of different countries should accordingly not be accepted as conclusive of the economic evils of the protective system.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1473. Je. 20, ’07. 330w.
“The book is frankly based on secondary sources, apparently not on very many, and is written for the general public, not for the student. We conclude that even among the staunchest of free-traders a book of this character could be welcomed only by the most shortsighted.” Chester W. Wright.
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 308. My. ’07. 1230w.
“It cannot be said that Mr. Pierce’s book is of great value to the student, but for the general reader it should serve a useful purpose. The author is at his best in the chapter which discusses the relation of protective tariffs to public morals.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 200w.
“Mr. Pierce has not written a book to class with Prof. Taussig’s, but it will serve a purpose for which the academic treatises are unsuited.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 104. F. 16, ’07. 1120w.
=Outlook.= 86: 341. Je. 15. ’07. 440w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 60w.
=Pierce, James Oscar.= Studies in constitutional history. *$1.50. Wilson, H. W.
6–24023.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Discusses in a clear and interesting way, and with a deep conviction that the hand of an ‘Overruling Providence’ can be detected in the development of our country.”
+ + =Yale. R.= 16: 224. Ag. ’07. 50w.
* =Pierson, Clara Dillingham.= Millers at Pencroft. †$1. Dutton.
6–35325.
A bright wholesome story of “a nice family with three children, who do the interesting things most children do. They send valentines, go out to tea and have cream puffs for desert, and once the boys sailed the kittens until they fell into the water. Buttercup had only to be dried, but Blackie was restored by means of artificial respiration. The children fed a party in a snow-stalled train, and that was great fun. too.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 80w.
“We would strongly recommend ‘The Millers at Pencroft.’”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 763. D. ’07. 150w.
=Pierson, Delevan Leonard=, ed. Pacific Islanders; from savages to saints. **$1. Funk.
6–39748.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 126. My. ’07.
“We could wish that there might have been somewhat less insistence upon the differences between Catholic and Protestant missionaries—differences which do not make very edifying reading.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 11: 904. D. 25, ’06. 160w.
=Pirscher, Johanna.= Growth without end: a popular exposition of some current ethical and religious views. **30c. Crowell.
7–21388.
One of the year’s additions to the “What is worth while series.” An optimistic discussion of the good resulting from the active principle of evolution and the work of modern sociology—good that shows itself in courtesy and generosity in daily intercourse, strength of purpose, devotion to duty and in a simple practical faith in God.
=Pitman, Isaac.= Pitman’s dictionary of commercial correspondence in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. $2.25. Pitman.
A valuable aid to the foreign correspondent. It gives the most common commercial terms and phrases. It does not attempt to displace, but rather to supplement other dictionaries, and it presupposes some knowledge of the grammar and construction of the different languages.
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+ =Spec.= 98: 464. Mr. 23, ’07. 100w.
=Pitt, William, 1st earl of Chatham.= Correspondence of William Pitt when secretary of state, with colonial governors and military and naval commissioners in America; ed. under the auspices of the National society of colonial dames of America, by Gertrude S. Kimball. 2v. **$6. Macmillan.
“This publication in two volumes contains the official correspondence of William Pitt, when secretary of state, 1756–1761, with the colonial governors and the naval and, military commanders in America. These were the years of Great Britain’s glory, when, under the inspiring genius of Pitt, her arms were successful in all corners of the globe, and when the British navy attained an unquestioned command of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.”—Putnam’s.
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“Valuable documentary publication.”
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 469. Ja. ’07. 70w.
“The letters may be read with special advantage by those who are taking up the study of the campaigns of 1756–1760, and they are full of interest to the average reader, since they contain much of the thought of the greatest statesman England can claim for three hundred years. The books are well printed and are unusually free from typographical errors, although there are one or two slight topographical slips in the volumes, such as placing Bic off the Saguenay river.”
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 663. Ap. ’07. 1560w.
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 799. D. 22. 1730w.
“Teachers and students of early American history owe to the patriotic society women, and to Miss Kimball, their thanks for making available these interesting records.” Edwin Erle Sparks.
+ + =Dial.= 43: 117. S. 1, ’07. 790w.
“The introduction is lucid and the notes admirably brief and painted; while the material collected gives a picture of Pitt’s powers of practical administration which is an absolute revelation.” Basil Williams.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 377. Ap. ’07. 1980w.
+ + =Ind.= 62: 1413. Je. 13, ’07. 790w.
“Miss Kimball was fortunate in finding nearly all her material ready arranged in the series of American and West Indian state papers preserved in the Record office, but a debt of gratitude is none the less due to her for bringing it to the notice of the English-speaking public in this clear and readable form.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 3. Ja. 4, ’07. 2160w.
“The documents in these volumes have been well edited, but Miss Kimball’s preface hardly meets the demands of the occasion.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 244. Mr. 14, ’07. 1780w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 970. Ag. 31, ’07. 550w.
“Carefully edited.” Herbert L. Osgood.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 326. Je. ’07. 990w.
“It seems ungracious to find fault when so much that is valuable is presented in these volumes, yet the collection would have been far completer, though much bulkier, if the enclosures in the dispatches had also been printed. The availability of such material cannot, however, compensate for an adequate biography.” George Louis Beer.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 1: 757. Mr. ’07. 460w.
“It is a great boon to the student of history to have valuable documentary material of this character printed in this convenient and accessible form.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 34: 756. D. ’06. 170w.
“The Society of the colonial dames of America has performed a pious task in collecting a correspondence which covers the origins of their nation, and in Miss Kimball they have found a competent editor. The book is interesting mainly as the raw material of history.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 143. Ja. 26. ’07. 1330w.
=Plantz, Samuel.= Church and the social problem: a study in applied Christianity. *$1.25. Meth. bk.
6–30015.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“There are a few minor features in the work which seem to fall short of a sympathetic understanding of Catholicism. Looking for the good in the work, however, we find it full of Christian sympathy, and of an honest desire to make Christianity true to its social mission.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 84: 698. F. ’07. 870w.
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 13. Ja. 1. ’07. 170w.
“A wholesome book and a tonic book.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 237. S. 22, ’06. 330w.
=Plumb, Charles Sumner.= Types and breeds of farm animals. *$2. Ginn.
7–1488.
Commonly accepted types and breeds of horses, asses, mules, cattle, sheep, goats and swine are treated in this volume, as for instance, the draft or speed type of horse, dairy type of cattle, and bacon type of swine. It includes a discussion on original habitat, breed development, history, work of pioneer breeders, characteristics, etc.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 103. Ap. ’07. S.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 600. N. ’07. 130w.
=Plummer, Mary Wright.= Roy and Ray in Mexico. Il. **$1.75. Holt.
7–19788.
A story told from the standpoint of Roy and Ray Stevens, lively twins, who spend a summer in Mexico. They visit Mexican cities, meet President Diaz, take part in an American colony’s celebration of the fourth of July, visit ruins and landmarks, and incidentally learn interesting bits of Mexican history. It is a travel book that will interest old as well as young.
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“Will be helpful to teachers.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 209. N. ’07.
“The pictures are particularly good.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 100w.
“A sensible book of travel.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 768. D. ’07. 60w.
=Plunkett, Charles Hare.= Letters of one: a study in limitations. **$1.25. Putnam.
7–12641.
“The book consists of more than forty letters, all purporting to be from a writer who is cursed with the artistic temperament, and addressed to a lady with whom he has fallen in love.... Every one of these letters explains, from one aspect or another, the writer’s conviction that courtship and marriage would involve infidelity to his true mistress—his art.”—Ath.
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“The writing of these letters, from the literary standpoint, is excellent. The sameness of the matter in them, tends to spoil the book, which would have been more interesting if it had included some of the replies to these highly wrought outpourings.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 471. Ap. 20. 550w.
“Bears the unmistakable Benson stamp in conception and execution. As a tour de force in the portrayal of love-madness at the summit of its absurdity, the little book is a sort of curiosity.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 343. Je. 1, ’07. 610w.
“An interesting study of the morbid and irritating type. As a reductio ad absurdum of the artistic temperament theory, the book has merit.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 590. Je. 27, ’07. 490w.
“Not a manly enough character to arouse much admiration in the reader’s mind. But it painted, with all its curious limitations and contradictions, very clearly and convincingly.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 257. Ap. 20, ’07. 380w.
“Take it all in all, is pretty thin gruel, fit for an invalid, maybe, but not very tasty at that. They do these things better on the continent, you know.” Florence Wilkinson.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 350. Je. 1, ’07. 1900w.
“A very clever book this.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 804. My. 18, ’07. 180w.
=Plympton, Almira George.= Dorcaster days. †$1.25. Little.
7–31228.
A story for young people in which the simple, pure, near-to-nature life of one family reforms the false, snobbish standards of another.
=Podmore, Frank.= Robert Owen, a biography. *$6. Appleton.
7–11019.
Mr. Podmore has gathered together and presented the details of the life of this Welshman whose plans for a co-operative village marks the beginning of modern socialism. The sketch follows his efforts and his failure. “There is hardly an item in the whole modern programme of social endeavour to-day, apart from religion, which he did not initiate, promote, or suggest; and the gospel of salvation by material-means, which is his gospel, gains ground everywhere at the expense of all other gospels.” (Lond. Times.)
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“An excellent and well-balanced biography. Mr. Podmore’s work will be found of value to students of present social conditions, as well as to those interested in early history in the middle west of America.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 289. N. 1, ’07. 390w.
“It is not the final biography of the prophet of socialism—a more illuminating one remains yet to be written; but it is opportune, meritorious and acceptable.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 250. Jl. 13, ’06. 2100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 549. S. 14, ’07. 1300w.
“The life of Robert Owen, which Mr. Podmore has written with much insight and considerable literary skill, is full of interest.”
+ =Spec.= 96: 1040. Je. 30, ’06. 1400w.
=Poe, Edgar Allan.= Poems; collected and edited, with a critical introduction and notes, by Edmund Clarence Stedman and George Edward Woodberry. $1. Duffield.
7–21324.
The text adopted here is that of the Lorimer Graham copy of the edition of 1845, revised by marginal corrections in Poe’s hand. There is a critical introduction to the poems and notes including variant readings.
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+ =Lit. D.= 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 150w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 616. O. 12, ’07. 130w.
=Politovsky, Eugene S.= From Libau to Tsushima: a narrative of the voyage of Admiral Rojdestvensky’s fleet to eastern seas, including a detailed account of the Dogger Bank incident; tr. by Major F. R. Godfrey. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–10987.
A diary in the form of letters to his wife written by the chief engineer of the fleet from Aug. 28, 1904 to May 10, 1905. “It presents with greater vividness than any formal history can the life on the Russian vessels during the seven months’ cruise from the Baltic around Africa, the long, tedious stay at Madagascar and Kamranh Bay and the preparations for the last fatal fight.” (Ind.)
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“If the author had been a closer observer and a more trained writer, the letters might have been very valuable, since little is known of that remarkable journey after the fleet left Tangier until it met its doom.”
− + =Acad.= 71: 382. O. 13, ’06. 230w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 126. My. ’07.
=Ind.= 61: 1571. D. 27. ’06. 190w.
“He is merely an intelligent outside observer, ready enough to make allowances for the difficulties with which Rojdestvensky was beset; but on that account his casual and incidental remarks are all the more illuminative.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 5: 310. S. 14, ’06. 1170w.
“His diary ... has deservedly been called a valuable contribution to the history of the great struggle in the Far East. It holds material, however, which should be subjected to careful interpretation.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 415. My. 2, ’07. 610w.
“The translator is to be congratulated upon his terse English and his successful avoidance of foreign idioms. An index would have been most acceptable.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 861. D. 8, ’06. 170w.
“This book may be considered a trustworthy record of events and of life on board the ships under Rojdestvensky’s command, whilst in it can be clearly traced the causes which led up to the crowning disaster of Tsushima.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 370. S. 22, ’06. 350w.
“A more faithful picture of what the Russians thought and said and did during these nine months there could not be.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 338. S. 8, ’06. 450w.
=Pollard, Albert Frederick.= Factors in modern history and their application to the problems around us. **$2.25. Putnam.
“Prof. Pollard’s book is made up of a number of lectures dealing chiefly with various aspects and developments of English history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In his own words, his object is ‘primarily to stimulate imagination,’ and he avowedly neglects ‘facts’ as such. What he offers is a series of conclusions (based as they must be, on an intimate knowledge of facts) on the character and inner meaning of certain phases of sixteenth and seventeenth century history, embodying illuminating reflections and generalizations from which the reader will turn with added zest to the ‘facts’ of the period.” (Ath.)
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“Professor Pollard is, we think, at his best in the earlier lectures. His tracing of the growth of the national idea, of the advent of the middle class, and his picture of the new monarchy are most interesting and stimulating in the Aristotelian sense of the word. His style is happy and light and his lectures, should be most interesting to listen to, for even in cold print they read delightfully.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 725. Jl. 27, ’07. 550w.
“It is ungrateful to carp at incidental peculiarity and ambiguity of detail amidst so much valuable generalization.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 91. Jl. 27. 850w.
“A word should be added in appreciation of the author’s literary style: the reviewer recalls no other discussion that brings out the humor of history so freely and so delightfully. Professor Pollard’s latest work is one that lovers of history will read with enjoyment as well as with profit.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 320. N. 16, ’07. 480w.
“It is long since we have approached a book of historical philosophy so intelligent or so incisive.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1174. N. 14, ’07. 640w.
“Some of the chapters are worthy of their author at his best; but others are not likely to add to his reputation and, though they may have been useful for their original purpose, ought not to have been given to the world in this form.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 251. Ag. 16, ’07. 1170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 548. S. 14, ’07. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 70w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 272. Ag. 31. ’07. 940w.
“It unquestionably merits the adjective ‘readable,’ which is more often bestowed than deserved.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 751. N. 16, ’07. 390w.
=Pollock, Frank Lillie.= Treasure trail. $1.25. Page.
6–18588.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 370. Je. 9, ’06. 150w.
=Sat. R.= 102: sup. 7. D. 8, ’06. 140w.
“It has occasional touches of verisimilitude, but its dramatic climax belongs to the region of the impossible.”
− + =World To-Day.= 11: 1222. N. ’06. 70w.
=Pollok, Allan.= Studies in practical theology. $1.50. T. C. Allen & co., Halifax, Canada.
“While the subject of preaching and pulpit preparation is not neglected, much more space is devoted to such topics as the clergyman’s life as a student, the conduct of public worship, the adminstration of the church and the visitation of the sick, than is usual in homiletical treatises. The best traditions of the Scottish ministry, among which are scholarly industry, personal dignity, unfailing courtesy, and above all things, fidelity and conscientiousness, find a kindly and gentle exponent in Principal Pollok.”—Nation.
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+ =Nation.= 85: 56. Jl. 18, ’07. 190w.
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 569. Je. 13, ’07. 110w.
=Pond, Oscar Lewis.= Municipal control of public utilities. **$1.50; pa. **$1. Macmillan.
7–4379.
“He begins with the definition of the purely governmental and the private or business functions of municipal corporations, discusses the legal construction of municipal charters and the implied powers of municipal corporations. He then sets forth ‘municipal purposes within the meaning of the constitution,’ shows the grounds on which municipal property is exempted from taxation, and treats of the sale of municipal property, power to grant exclusive franchises, and the regulation of charges for services rendered by private corporations.”—Engin. N.
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“Legal rather than economic in its discussion, it is rather more interesting to the student and general reader than most purely legal treatises.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 166. Jl. ’07. 240w.
=Engin. N.= 57: 555. My. 16, ’07. 130w.
=Poole, Ernest.= Voice of the street. †$1.50. Barnes.
6–19774.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is strong in its story element, but is not likely to have a large influence in changing conditions.” Madeline Z. Doty.
+ − =Charities.= 17: 487. D. 15, ’06. 420w.
=Porter, Eleanor H.= Cross currents: the story of Margaret. †$1. Wilde.
7–27618.
The story of a little girl of wealth who was lost and found by a little waif of the slums, taken to his meager attic, and forced to grow up among the sordid conditions of sweat-shops and dirty streets. The book is a revealing child-labor document.
=Porter, Gene Stratton (Mrs. Charles Darwin Porter).= What I have done with birds. **$3. Bobbs.
7–17394.
The sub-title of this book is wholly suggestive of its scope: “character studies of native American birds which through friendly advance I induced to pose for me, or succeeded in photographing by good fortune, with the story of my experiences in obtaining their pictures.”
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“Self-appreciation or self-consciousness constantly reappears throughout the book.” George Gladden.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 622. Ag. ’07. 330w.
“A thread of sustained interest runs through the whole book and makes it possible for the reader to overlook a perhaps justifiable pride of the author in her achievements and to ignore at times an abrupt style and a tendency to employ unusual words and phrases.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 216. O. 1. ’07. 220w.
“Besides the numerous half-tones, the volume contains seventeen full-page colored plates of unusual accuracy and beauty.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 150w.
“Few books entail such actual labor as this, such marvelous patience, and few books are produced with a spirit of enthusiastic at-one-ness with the subjects.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 170w.
=Porter, General Horace.= Campaigning with Grant. *$1.80. Century.
2–8573.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 54. F. ’07. ✠
=Porter, Robert Percival.= Dangers of municipal ownership. **$1.80. Century.
7–3905.
A study of conditions in many of the most famous industrial centers of the world lies back of Mr. Porter’s exposition. By way of a warning to the United States, he gives a brief history of Municipal ownership in Great Britain, pointing out the serious consequences of the indiscriminate pursuit of the system there. He says “Trading with the public credit, whether state or municipal, must, of necessity, lead to stupendous financial liabilities, add to the burden of the rates, weaken municipal credit, bring about inequality of taxation, interfere with the natural laws of trade, check industrial and scientific progress, stop invention, discourage individual effort, destroy foreign trade, establish an army of officials, breed corruption, create an aristocracy of labor, demoralize the voter, and ultimately make socialistic communities of towns and cities.”
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+ − =Acad.= 73: 108. N. 9, ’07. 1000w.
“Partisan in spirit but useful because it is practically the first presentation of this side of the question.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 103. Ap. ’07.
“As a wholly partisan writer on his chosen subject, Mr. Porter is an unqualified success except as his zeal defeats his own ends.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 553. My. 16, ’07. 400w.
“Mr. Porter has given us one of the most vigorous and readable books on this much-discussed subject. It is the work of an advocate but of an advocate perfectly sure of the correctness of his position and thoroughly alarmed at the tendencies he describes.” Wm. Hill.
+ + − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 495. O. ’07. 600w.
“The book is well worth the study of those interested in present economic conditions and is likely to attract considerable notice.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 386. Mr. 9, ’07. 530w.
“It is a real service to put the facts, which are accumulating clearly before the public and to explain them, so that people may know what they are doing. Mr. Porter’s book does that, and therein lies its value.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 250. Ag. 16, ’07. 1270w.
“He Is a confessed and violent partisan, and too many of the figures which he gives are untested and unfairly collated for inferences dubiously drawn. This we the more regret because we agree in the main with his point of view. Nor is his sense of order good.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 243. Mr. 14, ’07. 170w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 49. Ja. 26, ’07. 230w.
“He goes on to declare that the object of his book is to set forth ‘the inherent defects of the whole principle of public trading.’ We do not think that a book founded on this lack of discrimination and taking for itself this sole object, will be of any great help to the student of this problem.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 78. My. 11, ’07. 370w.
“This volume by Mr. Porter will attract attention, since it is practically the first popular presentation of that side of the discussion. Mr. Porter is a trained investigator and statistician, and presents his case in an attractive and entertaining way.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 38. Mr. ’07. 110w.
“Valuable as the work of a practical official and citizen of a practical nation.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 645. N. 2, ’07. 130w.
=Porter, Thomas F.= City songs and country carols. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
6–41028.
Nearly two hundred and fifty poems including fireside reveries, reminiscences, and sentiments of the philosopher, patriot and citizen.
=Post, Louis Freeland.= Ethical principles of marriage and divorce. *$1. Public pub. co., Chicago.
6–13427.
A serious treatment in which “Mr. Post ... argues that without unifying love marriage is essentially no better than concubinage. Genuine marriage is not created by the formal ceremony that is requisite to declare it; it exists before such declaration; it dies, if the love that constitutes it dies; it is reasonable and also conducive to moral interests that there should be a conventional release from the remaining conventional bond.” (Outlook.) “The natural inference from this is that when marriage ceases in reality, it should cease also in form. Divorce should be granted and remarriage permitted.” (Arena.)
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“We do not hesitate to call this book a classic on the subject of marriage and divorce. It is the ultimate analysis, the final answer to a problem engaging now, more than ever, human attention. We commend its consideration to all Bible-bound ecclesiastics as well as to free-lovers and sex-radicals wherever found.” Robert E. Bisbee.
+ + =Arena.= 37: 322. Mr. ’07. 2120w.
+ =Outlook.= 82: 808. Ap. 7, ’06. 280w.
=Potter, Beatrix.= Tale of Tom Kitten. †50c. Warne.
7–28973.
A prettily illustrated children’s story by the author of “The tale of Peter rabbit” and companion to it.
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“Other folk, as well as Pickles, will find pleasure in the dry and simple humor of the narrator, and the dainty pictures she has provided.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 516. O. 26. 140w.
=Potter, Rt. Rev. Henry Codman.= Reminiscences of bishops and archbishops. **$2. Putnam.
6–33595.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 104. Ap. ’07.
“The whole collection has so finely human a quality that it should have interest to those in no way connected with either of the offices that make so impressive an appearance in the title.”
+ + =Ind.= 62: 973. Ap. 25, ’07. 260w.
“He is able to indicate character by a stroke here and there, and the man stands before us, recalled by a good memory.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 39. Ja. 5, ’07. 1170w.
=Potter, Margaret.= The princess. †$1.50. Harper.
7–9844.
A sad story of love and intrigue with scenes drawn from Russian court life. The central figure is Princess Catherine, who lived in aloofness and isolation amid the social corruption about her which affected her in its most humiliating sense thru the inconstancy of her husband. The Czar and Czarina, diplomats and courtiers appear upon the stage where there is enacted a drama lacking neither romantic nor tragic interest.
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=Ath.= 1907, 1: 469. Ap. 20. 120w.
“It is a pity that Miss Potter should have resorted to this trick of supernaturalism, which seriously weakens her book.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 315. My. 16, ’07. 240w.
“An interesting novel of sufficient verisimilitude to give life and character to her narrative.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 548. Ap. 6, ’07. 170w.
“It would be hard to imagine an uglier situation than that upon which the action turns. Nevertheless the tale is in its way absorbing, and not likely to be at once forgotten.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 389. Ap. 25, ’07. 480w.
“Considering the general unpleasantness of Miss Potter’s theme, she has managed its development with a good deal of skill, though some doubts insist on obtruding as to her solution of the story’s final problem.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 350. Je. 1, ’07. 570w.
“Represents the highest achievement of its author yet given to the public.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + − =No. Am.= 185. 549. Jl. 5, ’07. 1220w.
“An occult strain runs through the novel, managed with frankness and some skill.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 813. Ap. 6, ’07. 150w.
* =Poulsson, Emilie.= Father and baby plays. †$1.25. Century.
7–38013.
A book of pictures, verses, music and notes for the teacher, father, mother and baby. It is designed as a means of strengthening the tie between father and child who are separated the whole day thru.
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“A new and very attractive book.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 537. D. ’07. 40w.
=Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5. ’07. 20w.
“The verses which Miss Poulsson has written are most uneven. The illustrations, however, are spirited and above the average.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 36: 766. D. ’07. 80w.
=Powell, Elmer Ellsworth.= Spinoza and religion: a study of Spinoza’s metaphysics and of his particular utterances in regard to religion, with a view to determining the significance of his thought for religion and incidentally his personal attitude toward it. *$1.50. Open ct.
6–21921.
“The aim of this book is to prove that Spinoza was irreligious and his philosophy antireligious.”—Philos. R.
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+ =Ind.= 62: 856. Ap. 11, ’07. 250w.
“The book is clear in style, thorough in execution, and exhibits much logical acumen.” Eugene W. Lyman.
+ =J. Philos.= 4: 668. N. 21, ’07. 440w.
“The author demonstrates his familiarity with the field and his liveliness of interest. The style, furthermore, is excellent, and does much to redeem a book which is otherwise too doggedly iconoclastic to be either stimulating or pleasing.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 487. D. 6, ’06. 1520w.
“Lacks that spirit of impartiality which is the prime requisite in all critical investigations. Nor does Dr. Powell appear to have studied the philosopher’s writings with enough thoroughness to enable him to grasp the true significance of his teaching.” E. Ritchie.
− =Philos. R.= 16: 339. My. ’07. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 118. Ja. ’07. 50w.
=Power, John O’Connor.= Making of an orator. **$1.35. Putnam.
6–19419.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is popular in style and suggestive as to matter.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 70. Mr. ’07.
=Pratt, Ambrose.= Counterstroke. *$1. Fenno.
A melodramatic story filled with lurid pictures. The characters are “either Nihilists of the most rabid breed or members of a society pledged to exterminate Nihilists by the use of tactics exactly modeled on their own bloody methods—whence the title, ‘The counterstroke.’” (N. Y. Times.)
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“As lurid as the wildest dream of villainy and injured innocence that ever found its way into the pages of the cheap story papers.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 549. S. 14, ’07. 180w.
=Pratt, Antwerp Edgar.= Two years among New Guinea cannibals: a naturalist’s sojourn among the aborigines of unexplored New Guinea. *$4. Lippincott.
6–24917.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Mr. Pratt devotes little space in this book to natural history, its bulk being given to a gossipy description of the author’s journeyings, with remarks, too often inaccurate, on the natives he came in contact with.” C. G. Seligmann.
− + =Nature.= 74: 58. My. 17, ’06. 890w.
=Pratt, Edwin A.= Railways and their rates. *$1.50. Dutton.
6–7780.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3:104. Ap. ’07.
“The pamphlet is well worth studying.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 643. N. 2, ’07. 340w.
=Pratt, Henry Sherring.= Course in vertebrate zoology: a guide to the dissection and comparative study of vertebrate animals. *$1.50. Ginn.
6–1432.
“The work includes practical directions for the dissection and study of seven types of vertebrates; the dogfish for the elasmobranchs; the perch for the teleost; the Necturus and frog for the amphibians; the turtle; pigeon; and cat.... Each type is treated independently of the rest, and may be studied separately.... It is strictly a laboratory guide, not a treatise on comparative anatomy.”—School R.
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“Notwithstanding drawbacks, the work remains as a useful guide to those teachers who wish to arrange a course in comparative anatomy.”
+ − =Nature.= 74: sup. 8. O. 11, ’06. 750w.
“One might have wished that the author had omitted entirely the very incomplete, incorrect, antiquated, and obsolete outline of the classification of the vertebrates, for which, however, the author is responsible only in accepting Wiedersheim as an authority. The work itself, for which the author is responsible, is remarkably free from errors.” S. W. Williston.
+ − =School R.= 15: 235. Mr. ’07. 280w.
=Pratt, James Bissett.= Psychology of religious belief. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–4164.
A discussion which is more concerned with the modest and concrete problem of the nature of belief in a God or gods and the basis or bases on which this belief really rests than with the nature or the definition of religion. The author aims to break ground in a rich but neglected field.
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“The book will repay study. We must, however. submit that Professor Pratt’s definition of intellectual belief stands in need of modification.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 25: 255. My. ’07. 430w.
“Valuable work.”
+ =Current Literature.= 42: 418. Ap. ’07. 1820w.
“As a simple direct presentation of religious-mindedness, the essay is to be commended.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 148. Mr. 1, 07. 280w.
“The argument is well reasoned, and is expressed in clear and popular style.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1378. D. 5, ’07. 140w.
“This volume is a happy addition to the rapidly growing literature of religious psychology. It deals with the side of the subject that as yet has received scant attention from the scientific students of the religious consciousness. The clear and simple style of the book, together with the note of earnestness and sincerity that pervades it, makes it a pleasure to read. It is a scholarly study of a psychological problem. It will be read with profit by many who have neither a psychological training nor scholarly interests. A carefully selected bibliography of the psychology of religion and an index add to the usefulness of the book for the purposes of the student.” F. C. French.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 383. Jl. 4, ’07. 1680w.
+ − =Nation.= 85: 237. S. 12, ’07. 440w.
“One can hardly ask for a clearer vindication than this volume presents of the absolute validity of the religious consciousness.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 831. Ag. 17, ’07. 1030w.
* =Pratt, Waldo Selden.= History of music. Schirmer.
Distinctly a book of reference for students rather than a literary or critical survey of a few salient aspects, or a specialist’s report of original research. It is encyclopedic in its fulness and from primitive or savage music down to later nineteenth century music the leading tendencies or movements of musical advance are discussed.
=Preissig, Edward.= Notes on the history and political institutions of the old world. **$2.50. Putnam.
6–22387.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Threshing as it does over fields already covered by many excellent works, such a book as this should find its justification in clearness of presentation, yet in this respect it can hardly be called a success. The language is often so confused as to be almost unintelligible, and many errors appear which should have been detected in a careful reading of the manuscript or of the proof.”
− + =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 414. Ja. ’07. 650w.
=Prendergast, William A.= Credit and its uses. **$1.50. Appleton.
6–40205.
“This book treats briefly of the theory of credit, urging that, besides the tangible element of property, the intangible element of good faith, or confidence, is fundamental. Thus he holds strongly that credit is chiefly dependent on these intangible elements.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“The book is sufficiently popular to be understood by the layman, is strong on the practical side. Its weakness on the theoretical side will not hurt it as an introduction to practical problems of credit.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 170. O. ’07.
“The weakest part of the book is that dealing with the theory of credit.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 157. Ja. 17, ’07. 480w.
“Whatever the value to be assigned to his treatment of the academic side of credit, the book must really be estimated by the useful compilation he has made of material bearing on the practical side of the question.” L.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 638. D. ’06. 320w.
“A work serviceable at some points and altogether unsatisfactory at others.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 142. F. 7. ’07. 1030w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 40w.
=Prentice, Ezra Parmalee.= Federal power over carriers and corporations. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–4172.
A book which deals with the nature and extent of powers belonging to the general government and not with Congressional legislation. In Mr. Prentice’s study, constitutional construction is interpreted by the aid of constitutional history.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 104. Ap. ’07.
“Mr. Prentice’s excellent work has serious limitations which are doubtless the result of his close identity with certain large corporations whose activities may be more or less affected by the enforcement of the anti-trust act.” Emory R. Johnson.
+ + − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 186. Jl. ’07. 800w.
“Apart from its interest to the lawyer and the lawmaker, the book is of value to all who are concerned with or are interested in the problems of government and economics.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 273. Ja. 31, ’07. 950w.
“On the whole, however, it must be said that the book’s place is as a readable partisan account of the development of a constitutional doctrine, and not as a serious contribution to the legal literature of the subject.” James Parker Hall.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 238. Ap. ’07. 1680w.
“For some students of constitutional theories they may have their interest; but to the elucidation of the practical questions now before the country they contribute substantially nothing.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 411. My. 2, ’07. 350w.
“He writes like a lawyer, with close study of the precedents, and with no wandering from his text. The book is not large, but it is weighty, and calls for an answer. The subject cannot be allowed to drop until it is settled, and those wishing the latest word cannot afford to neglect Mr. Prentice’s discussion.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 84. F. ’07. 1670w.
“This is the book of a lawyer, but one written less for lawyers than for those, whatever may be their lines of life, who are now studying from the historical standpoint the Rooseveltian theory of constitutional government.” Simeon E. Baldwin.
+ =No. Am.= 184: 311. F. 1, ’07. 1530w.
“The rarity of lapses emphasizes the scrupulous care with which the work has been prepared, while the industry, skill and conviction of the author make criticism difficult.” H. A. Cushing.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 716. D. ’07. 1120w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 40w.
=Prentis, John Harcourt.= Case of Dr. Horace: a study of the importance of conscience in the detection of crime. †$1.25. Baker.
7–12637.
In the interests of psychology, to prove how great a part the conscience of a criminal plays in the detection of his crime, two friends devise a daring test. They substitute the body of a man who died at a hospital for Dr. Horace, who promptly disappears on a two weeks’ vacation. They arrange the body so that murder is evident, they furnish a motive and every clue points to Wallace, the other man in the plot, as the murderer. Then follows the work of the detectives on the trail of the murderer without a conscience. The story is interesting, and the end is clever, altho it evades the psychological point.
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“The story, however, though readable thruout, weakens deplorably in the latter chapters.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 457. My. 16, ’07. 370w.
=Price, George Bacon.= Gaining health in the West, (Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona); being impressions of a layman. *$1. Huebsch.
7–19791.
Based upon seven years’ personal experience with “climate” this little volume offers sane and valuable advice to all who are obliged to seek the West in search of health. It discusses climatic conditions, marital obligations, social and ethical aspects, tells where and how to live, how to avoid loneliness, how to get employment and many other things which only one who has learned the detailed lessons taught by experience can know.
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“Anyone contemplating a Colorado residence, especially if in search of health, will find this little volume an admirable substitute for such advice as he might expect from an experienced sensible, and sympathetic friend.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 20. Jl. 1, ’07. 200w.
“Is a sensible little book of good advice for the consumptives:”
+ =Ind.= 63: 344. Ag. 8, ’07. 90w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 14. Jl. 4, ’07. 70w.
* =Price, John Ambrose.= The negro: past, present, and future. $1.50. Neale.
A three part treatment. The Past is a vindication of the old south as regards the black man, the Present reveals the negro as he exists in the south to-day under peculiar conditions and circumstances, the Future relates the possibilities of what may come to the American negro.
=Price, William Hyde.= English patents of monopoly. (Harvard economic studies, v. 1.) **$1.50. Houghton.
6–36187.
In this volume “the application of the common law to cases of monopoly down to the enactment of the common-law principle in the statute of monopolies in 1624, is followed in detail.... Having treated of the political and economic aspects of the monopoly system as a whole, the author devotes succeeding chapters to several selected important industries wherein monopolies were established.... In appendices, occupying something over one hundred pages, original documents, statutes, letters, and proclamations concerning patents, monopolies, and commissions, and touching grievances, are reprinted.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“This somewhat perfunctory treatment of the larger question involved is our principal, in fact almost our only criticism of this serious study by a well-trained investigator of an interesting and important subject. We regret that a more restricted subject was not taken, or else that the first chapter, the ‘political history’ of the monopolies, was not made much longer and more serious, more discriminating and more scientifically historical. We have no doubt that the author is entirely capable of having so treated it, but was led astray by a predominatingly economic interest.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 878. Jl. ’07. 710w.
“To that literature [English economic history] the present monograph is a scholarly contribution.” John Cummings.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 14: 575. N. ’06. 600w.
“Mr. Price ... deals with the matter as a historian rather than as a legislator or statesman, but publicists cannot read his excellent contribution to the subject of monopolies without finding it highly suggestive.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 122. Mr. 2, ’07. 1650w.
=Prichard, Kate O’Brien Hesketh, and Prichard, Hesketh Vernon Hesketh (E. and H. Heron, pseud.).= Don Q. in the Sierra. †$1.50. Lippincott.
6–42429.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“His various adventures are well told, and we shall be delighted to meet him again next time he comes to life.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 590. D. 8, ’06. 170w.
“Here are twelve new sketches of the career of this redoubtable brigand; and if they are inferior to their predecessors, the difference is not noticeable.”
+ =Ath.= 1906, 2: 768. D. 15. 100w.
“The narratives making up the volume ... are crowded with exciting incident and are capitally told.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 386. F. 14, ’07. 110w.
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 86. Ja. 19, ’07. 160w.
=Spec.= 97: 990. D. 15, ’06. 100w.
=Prideaux, Sarah Treverbian.= Modern bookbindings; their design and decoration. *$3. Dutton.
6–33798.
“An account of the best English and French bookbinders of the day, written by an artist of their work.”—Ath.
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“The only objection to it that can be raised is that, none of the artist’s own work being included, it is incomplete as a representation of what is being done.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 81. Jl. 21. 550w.
“Miss Prideaux has admirably supplemented her former volume, ‘Book-binders and their craft.’”
+ =Ind.= 63: 160. Jl. 18, ’07. 280w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 89. N. ’06. 190w.
“There is scarcely any attempt at technical exposition, so that these who take up the book with the object of gaining information on these points must be warned to look elsewhere.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 298. Ag. 31, ’06. 670w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 238. Ap. 13, ’07. 470w.
=Spec.= 96: 760. My. 12, ’06. 100w.
=Prince, Leon Cushing.= Bird’s-eye view of American history. **$1.25. Scribner.
7–12868.
A brief survey of American history from the discovery by Columbus down to the Roosevelt administration.
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“In view of the space-limits of the book, some topics receive surprisingly comprehensive treatment. To the mature reader this outline will prove serviceable in connection with more extended histories. The book’s usefulness, however, is greatly impaired by the inexcusable omission of an index.” George H. Haynes.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 183. O. ’07. 610w.
“There are too many errors of fact. Nor is Mr. Prince always happy in his generalizations.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 271. Ap. 27, ’07. 560w.
“Is generally speaking, in accord with the findings of modern scholarship. It is not free from questionable statements. But against these defects must be set some really striking features.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 569. Je. 13, ’07. 350w.
“Any student of American history who finds himself confused or overwhelmed by the mass of material that is presented in more elaborate works should make it a point to read Professor Prince’s book for the sake of its clarifying effect.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 637. My. ’07. 90w.
=Prince, Morton.= Dissociation of a personality: a biographical study in abnormal psychology. *$2.80. Longmans.
5–42041.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Francis Harold Dike.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 265. Ja. ’07. 2340w.
=Prudden, Theophil M.= On the great American plateau: wanderings among canyons and buttes in the land of the cliff-dweller, and the Indian of to-day; il. by E. Leaming. **$2. Putnam.
7–1482.
The reader is here afforded “glimpses of the rugged southwest country, with its quaint aborigines and the ruins of an older folk.” “Of prehistoric remains, of the life and work of primitive house-builders, and of the present conditions of Indian life on the great plateau Dr. Prudden tells us much, while the natural wonders of the locality are graphically described.” (Outlook.)
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“The interpretation of the far southwest requires a command of language and a power of appreciation possessed by few writers. Mr. Prudden has both. Perhaps the best recommendation that can be given this picturesque description is that it makes the reader anxious to see what is spoken of with his own eyes.”
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 646. My. ’07. 240w.
“Dr. Prudden’s style is notably vigorous and enthusiastic.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 374. Je. 16, ’07. 200w.
“A very readable book.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 735. Mr. 28, ’07. 210w.
“The book on the whole has the charm of freshness and reality.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 360. Ap. 18, ’07. 190w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 748. N. 10, ’06. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 15. Ja. 12, ’07. 290w.
“A popular travel book, but it is not of the superficial variety. It is the work of a keen observer who reflects upon what he sees.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 122. Mr. 2, ’07. 630w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
+ =Outlook.= 85: 331. F. 9, ’07. 100w.
=Pryce, Richard.= The successor: a novel. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–25083.
Here is a story with a mystery surrounding the birth of an heir to a vast English estate. The moral law is sacrificed to the interests of ambition, and like many a modern story, no retribution follows for the offenders. The art of the story teller protects the mystery almost too well. The best character of the story is that of a faithful servant who served the house rather than individuals.
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“However venturesome the foundation of its plot, this book cannot be charged with grossness. The seasoned reader will get from if no great harm, but much delightful entertainment. The immature reader will do just as well not to make its acquaintance.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 251. O. 16, ’07. 310w.
“The style is evidently an earnest attempt to follow in the crooked footsteps of Henry James, and the matter, too, is not so very different from the sort of exposition upon which that master expends his genius. One might even say at the risk of great contumely, that, being at least lucid, it is really a little better worth while.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 534. S. 7, ’07. 230w.
=Pryor, Sara Agnes Rice (Mrs. Roger Atkinson Pryor).= Birth of the nation, Jamestown, 1607. **$1.75. Macmillan.
7–14669.
In view of the Jamestown celebration special emphasis is here laid upon the part which it played in the birth of our nation. Beginning with the legends of early discoverers, the story of the colonization of Virginia is given briefly but with good detail, the men both white and red, who took active part in the struggle with the wilderness are vividly pictured in connection with the work they did. It is not a history of Jamestown, it is a history of the great movement which created Jamestown and preserved it, and it is a timely tribute to the town’s significance.
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“It is based upon all the available sources, and these have been fairly well used. There is no offensive display of the critical spirit; neither is the author credulous. In the way of criticism, it may be said that the author seems to think that Powhatan is a name, not a title; that too much space is devoted to descriptions of the Indians and their life, and not enough attention to conditions among the colonists; that there is no index, and some of the illustrations would be better suited to a work of fiction.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 66. Ag. 1, ’07. 440w.
“It is the careful, finished work of one who loves the task for its own sake, and who has lived long with her materials.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 698. S. 19, ’07. 230w.
“This book is in all respects a worthy and interesting memorial of the Jamestown celebration.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 842. My. 25, ’07. 280w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 453. My. 16, ’07. 160w.
“She has weighed the reputations of men in the balance, and one feels that her judgment is equally just and sympathetic.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 282. My. 4, ’07. 1320w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
“No better book could be found to give a lively impression of the early days of the seventeenth century, and to refresh our knowledge of the events we are now celebrating in old Jamestown.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 77. My. 11, ’07. 290w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 128. Jl. ’07. 70w.
=Spec.= 99: 170. Ag. 3, ’07. 250w.
=Puffer, Ethel D.= Psychology of beauty. *$1.25. Houghton.
5–16135.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“Is composed of a series of delightful essays whose charm can escape neither the casual nor the critical reader. Its difficulties are exactly the crucial difficulties of the subject.” I. Madison Bentley.
+ − =Philos. R.= 16: 86. Ja. ’07. 1700w.
=Pulitzer, Walter.= Cozy corner confidences. 75c. Dodge.
A collection of epigrams gathered from comic periodicals.
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“The collection makes a readable booklet after the style of the ‘Cynic’s calendar.’”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1399. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
=Pullan, Richard Butterfield.= Currency and coin. *$1. Occasional publisher.
7–23269.
“This excursion of a business man into monetary reform is based upon a desire to adjust bimetallism and the use of silver to the gold standard. Instead of ‘asset currency’ he suggests more silver. Thinking our currency insufficient, he advises that the government, ‘under a safe and conservative system of bimetallism,’ should greatly increase our circulating medium.... Next, the author proposes an indefinite increase of government bonds, to be called upon request of any national bank which will pay in gold or silver to an amount equal to the par value of the bonds.”—J. Pol. Econ.
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“The whole scheme is whimsical, and not worthy of serious attention.”
− =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 493. O. ’07. 230w.
“We have suffered too much from bad finance to allow tenderness for an author to encourage his errors by condoning them.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 647. O. 19, ’07. 520w.
“The whole treatment shows lack of familiarity with the principles of monetary science and the literature of the subject.”
− =Yale R.= 16: 335. N. ’07. 90w.
=Putnam, George Haven.= Censorship of the church of Rome, and its influence upon the production and distribution of literature. **$2.50. Putnam.
7–1301.
To be complete in two volumes. The work is a study of the history of the prohibitory and expurgatory indexes, together with some consideration of the effects of Protestant censorship and of censorship by the state. It includes a list of the more important decrees, prohibitions, briefs, and edicts relating to the prohibition of specific books from the time of Gelasius I., 567 A. D., to the issue in 1900 of the latest of the church under Leo XIII.
=v. 2.= “The theological controversies in France, Germany, England, and the Netherlands, from 1600 to 1750, are first discussed. These are followed by a study of the treatment of the Scriptures under censorship in these countries and Spain, and then the author considers the relations of the censorship to the various monastic orders—Jesuits, Dominicans, Casuits Seculars, and Regulars.” (N. Y. Times.) Further he describes the Roman Indexes, gives brief descriptions of examples of condemned literature, and discusses the subject of censorship.
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“Who can commend in any way, especially to a general reader, looking for the information on a specific point, a book which contains numerous errors on almost every page?” George L. Hamilton.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 12. 871. Jl. ’07. 1160w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Can he cite any instances of a misunderstanding of the subject of the books, and of the language in which they are written, as remarkable as those of which he himself is guilty?” George L. Hamilton.
− =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 135. O. ’07. 650w. (Review of v. 2.)
− =Ath.= 1907, 1: 403. Ap. 6. 2100w. (Review of v. 1.)
“As we turn over these pages we have often felt ourselves, like the cave dwellers in Plato, trying to reconstruct the facts from the shadows of them before us. The author’s general conclusion as to the effect of censorship is correct and obvious.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 210. Ag. 24. 520w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Mr. Putnam’s book ... is honorably free from bias. He is simply and solely a historian, and he tries, and successfully tries, to put before us the main facts, in the history with which he deals.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 85: 552. Jl. ’07. 750w. (Review of v. 1.)
“We do not mean to say that the book is free from hints and phrases to which the majority of Catholics would object. But, looking at the matter impartially, we are bound to credit Dr. Putnam with the desire to be a just and equitable historian.”
+ + − =Cath. World.= 85: 839. S. ’07. 350w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It may be remarked in passing, however, that the value of the work as a book of reference might have been enhanced by the provision of a more complete general index.” Arthur Howard Noll.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 338. Je. 1, ’07. 2420w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Dr. Putnam has accomplished his difficult task with conscientious thoroness and complete scientific impartiality. If we may suggest a possible improvement in the work, we would observe that the medieval prohibitions of Bible-reading in the vernacular are too summarily dismissed.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 969. Ap. 25, ’07. 660w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The work, as now completed, ranks second only to Reusch as a history of prohibitive book legislation, and is easily the best authority on the subject in the English language.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 401. Ag. 15, ’07. 220w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Fairness and justice, and that essential historical perspective which is attained by transporting oneself into the epoch described are the prevailing traits of the work.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 342. Mr. 2, ’07. 440w. (Review of v. 1.)
“In dealing with this large and difficult subject, Dr. Putnam appears to have fallen between two stools. Although the book shows evidence of considerable labor and contains much matter not to be found elsewhere in convenient form, it is frankly selective, and therefore not of essential value for scholars. On the philosophical side, again, Dr. Putnam has but little to offer. The book is somewhat loose in style and inaccurate in minor details.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 478. My. 23, ’07. 550w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“The temper in which the work is done and the purposes manifested by the writer are open to the appreciation of all. It would be ungracious to close this slight notice of Mr. Putnam’s work without an expression of appreciation for the unusual lucidity of his style.” Edward Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 1. Ja. 5, ’07. 1280w. (Review of v. 1.)
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 372. Je. 8, ’07. 500w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It is prepared by a scholar for scholars. It takes rank with such works as Henry Charles Lea’s volumes on ‘The Inquisition of the middle ages,’ ‘The inquisition of Spain’ and ‘Sacradotal celibacy.’ We predict that it will be an authority on this subject for American and English readers.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 520. Jl. 6, ’07. 820w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=R. of Rs.= 35: 757. Je. ’07. 60w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“Dr. Putnam presents the facts with all impartiality, and has given scholars a serviceable book of reference. The profusion of misprinted Latin words in volume 1 is unfortunate.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: 209. Ag. 17, ’07. 990w. (Review of v. 1. and 2.)
“Mr. Putnam’s book is a triumph of industry and, what is not less important in such a matter, impartiality.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 296. Ag. 31, ’07. 1500w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
=Pyle, Howard.= Stolen treasure. †$1.25. Harper.
7–18095.
Four as stirring tales of romance and adventure of pirates and buried treasure as ever delighted boys old or young. They are entitled: With the buccaneers, Tom Chist and the treasure box, The ghost of Captain Brand, and The devil of New Hope. The volume is illustrated by the author.
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“Should prove entertaining to both young and old.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 203. N. ’07. ✠
“Although Mr. Pyle’s delightful tales appeal primarily to youthful readers they may be recommended as a sort of tonic for adults grown weary of the fiction of the day. The pictures, which are by the author, are of course in perfect tune with the lively narrative.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 26. Jl. 6.’07. 210w.
“These stories are his best of the type. There are four of them and they are each distinctive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 434. Jl. 6, ’07. 300w.
* =Pyle, Howard.= Story of Sir Launcelot and his companions, il. **$2.50. Scribner.
7–34314.
The story is told in text and pictures. The book is “a companion to the former volumes dealing with the Round table, and it follows the original closely in spirit. In the re-telling of Malory, there is always a loss of spirit and of ruggedness, however sincere the effort may be: and it takes a genius equal to Malory’s own to rewrite him.” (Nation.)
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“It is far superior to the average attempt.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 110w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 619. N. 23, ’07. 120w.
=Pyle, Katharine, and Portor, Laura S.= Theodora. †$1.25. Little.
7–32563.
A book for little girls which tells of the experiences of Theodora Winthrop in an Episcopal sisters’ school in New York city during her father’s absence abroad. It contains a lesson of hatred turned to love through careful guidance.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 765. D. ’07. 40w.
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=Quayle, William Alfred.= God’s calendar, il. *$1.50. West. Meth. bk.
7–34142.
The significance of each month is imaginatively revealed and its secrets uncovered in the thirteen chapters of Mr. Quayle’s offering. The illustrations are beautiful and suggestive of dream life in nature.
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“The tone of the book is distinctly rapturous, but it will find many appreciators. One would surmise that it will be especially popular with the older generation of readers, who have not been sated with nature books, and who will like it for expressing feelings which they have never quite dared to voice for themselves.” May Estelle Cook.
+ =Dial.= 43: 419. D. 16, ’07. 210w.
Queen’s festivals: an explanation of the feasts of the blessed Virgin Mary for her little ones. 60c. Benziger.
7–16988.
An introduction is followed by three parts devoted respectively to The Queen’s anniversaries, Festivals of the Queen’s titles, and The Queen’s Sundays.
* =Quick, John Herbert.= Broken lance. il. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–32560.
The hero of this story is a young minister at the head of a fashionable Chicago church who recoils from the luxury of his congregation’s worship, and espouses the real and vital cause of the dwellers in the underworld. With him are associated a sturdy, strong-willed propagandist of the Henry George principles and a dark-skinned girl who fearlessly lives her faith. It is a study which involves various religious and economic questions of to-day.
R
=Rae, John.= Sociological theory of capital. **$4. Macmillan.
6–7791.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“His rearrangement of the text represents a great improvement over the original form. While he has employed his privilege of annotating very sparingly, such notes as he has attached are uniformly helpful.” Alvin S. Johnson.
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 162. Mr. ’07. 1310w.
“Dr. Mixter has done work of a valuable type in producing this volume, for, whether Rae’s economic conclusions are accepted or not, they are certainly a most stimulating contribution to the history of economics.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 648. Ap. 27, ’07. 720w.
=Ragg, Rev. Lonsdale.= Dante and his Italy. *$3.50. Putnam.
7–29016.
“To look at Italy through the eyes of Dante himself, and having looked to realise her for others, as she appeared to the poet during his sojourn upon earth, has been the chief aim of the author of this new study.... He begins with a rapid sketch of the state of Europe as a whole at what he calls the ‘critical moment of Dante’s life, the ideal state of his vision,’ passing on to concentrate his attention first on Italy, then on Florence, and finally on Dante himself, tracing his literary antecedents, calling up one after another the possibilities of his contemporary authors and of his hosts during the weary wanderings of his exile, the narrative terminating with an eloquent account of the last days at Ravenna, and of the impression caused by the news that the great genius had passed away.”—Int. Studio.
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“Our chief quarrel with Mr. Ragg is on account of his trick of introducing trivialities, hardly suited to the dignity of his theme.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 662. Je. 1. 1120w.
“Canon Ragg is steeped to the finger tips in Dantesque lore, is thoroughly familiar with everything written by the man to whom his book is one long tribute of homage, and is gifted with an imagination so vivid that he has been able to piece together a very realistic picture of the period at which his hero lived.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 169. Ag. ’07. 200w.
“His task is suited to his powers, which are, it must be said, not inconsiderable. He gives the delightful impression, so rarely received in these days, that he knows a great deal more than he has set down.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 164. My. 24, ’07. 1340w.
“With a little more system, a greater tenacity in developing each of his themes, Mr. Ragg would have written a book to be often opened for reference after being once read for pleasure. It is a pity, that this book should be marred by many misprints in foreign words. A more serious defect is an excessive fondness for the dramatic and picturesque, which leads Mr. Ragg into baseless conjectures and striking inconsistencies.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 80. Jl. 25, ’07. 1070w.
“Everywhere Canon Ragg writes as a man, scholarly and imaginatively dominated by his subject, and yet with a painstaking discretion which at once enables the reader to separate facts from hearsay. On one or two points, however, he shows that he has not followed the researches of Dante’s scholars as carefully as he has the half-forgotten chronicles of the poet’s contemporaries.” Walter Littlefield.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 550. S. 14, ’07. 2220w.
“Dr. Ragg’s narrative style, clear, compact, smooth, well fits his subject-matter.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 614. Jl. 20, ’07. 410w.
“Many of Mr. Ragg’s statements have that air of generalization which belongs to ideas absorbed at second-hand. He needs a course of reading, and above all a study of statutes and documents.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: 688. Je. 1, ’07. 750w.
“If the writer allows himself here and there a touch of fancy not altogether authorised by known facts, he never in any case sins against probability.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 233. Ag. 17, ’07. 1140w.
=Raine, Allen, pseud. (Mrs. Beynon Puddicombe).= Queen of the rushes, a tale of the Welsh country. †$1.50. Jacobs.
6–35940.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Considered as a series of pictures representing Welsh landscape and Welsh people, this book has much charm and a certain quiet interest. As a story it fails by an excessive and inartistic introduction of the marvellous.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 1: 758. Je. 23. 110w.
“Allan Raine is very sensitive to the beauty and the picturesqueness of the rugged Welsh character and Welsh scenery, and has a skillful pen in the weaving of these things into a structure of the tale. The result is to mask very pleasingly an inherent feebleness of conception and treatment.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 28. Ja. 19, ’07. 280w.
=Raleigh, Walter Alexander.= Shakespeare. *75c. Macmillan.
7–15578.
A monograph in the English men of letters series, which interprets Shakespeare to us largely from his dramas. It is in five chapters: Shakespeare, Stratford and London, Books and poetry, The theatre, Story and character, and The last phase.
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“A distinct contribution to Shakesperean literature.”
+ + =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 170. O. ’07. S.
“It is one of the most suggestive books on Shakespeare that this country has yet produced.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 689. Je. 8. 2870w.
“Even some of the most appreciative among [the critics] have considered his work too much as literature and not enough as drama. This is the chief fault in Professor Raleigh’s contribution.” Edward Fuller.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 155. O. ’07. 1320w.
“He has produced a thoroughly safe volume on the subject of what everyone should know about Shakespeare. And when we add that he writes not as a fetich-worshipper but as a reverent and honest student, we have said enough.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 215. O. 1, ’07. 390w.
“To a layman the contrast between Professor Raleigh’s volume and the writings of Shakespeare scholars generally is very astonishing. The point that, as a layman, we wish to emphasize, is that he can be read with pleasure by those who have tried to read the other books and failed.” Frank Moore Colby.
+ + =Forum.= 39: 255. O. ’07. 1760w.
“For this little volume it is safe to predict a large degree of public favor. It reveals, it is true, many instances of bad logic and an abundant lack of system. But it is in many respects brilliant, the style is almost epigrammatic in its sententiousness, and the felicitous aptness with which the text is quoted amounts almost to a display of genius.”
+ + − =Ind.= 63: 153. Jl. 18, ’07. 1000w.
“Mr. Raleigh has given us an essay, overflowing with life, crammed with suggestion, full of stimulating ideas and happy turns of phrase, and with no dull page from beginning to end. It is table-talk _in excelsis_, stamped with all the freshness and brightness of an original mind. This impromptu nature of Mr. Raleigh’s criticism brings with it, of course, the defect of its quantity.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 130. Ap. 26, ’07. 2870w.
“We are delighted to find him penetrating to the root of the matter, which is that Shakespeare’s stage was a platform and not, like ours, a picture-frame, and that drama written to be played on a platform took a peculiar shape from that very fact. Alive to the fact, he seems to be dead, or only half alive, to its consequences. He has the key, nourishes it, and then, instead of using it, puts it in his pocket.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 141. My. 8, ’07. 1700w.
“The book is not well constructed; and throughout, the author’s strength lies rather in stimulating comment than in logical inference.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 454. My. 11, ’07. 1400w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 256. Ap. 20, ’07. 330w.
“Prof. Raleigh’s comprehension of this theatre and its demands lends much value to his book.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 288. My. 4, ’07. 1230w.
“It is in his consideration of Shakespeare as a poet and as a creator of character that Professor Raleigh is seen at his best.” Brander Matthews.
+ + =No. Am.= 185: 780. Ag. 2, ’07. 1090w.
“Professor Raleigh is not so happily untechnical as Professor Baker, and is more concerned with critical estimates, from the easy assumptions of which many of his readers will heartily dissent.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 331. O. 19, ’07. 380w.
“Though not so good a book as we might expect from him, is much better than some of the critics reckon it.” Wm. J. Rolfe.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 276. S. ’07. 890w.
“Dr. Raleigh manages to get within the compass of one brief volume a vast amount of information and interpretation of the immortal bard without becoming either prosy or dogmatic.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 756. Je. ’07. 40w.
“Professor Raleigh has really achieved some sort of balance within a scope which he recognizes from the outset to be very limited.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 145. Ag. 3, ’07. 1850w.
“The writer of this happy volume has the art of forgetting that he is a professor.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 942. Je. 15, ’07. 1330w.
=Ramsay, William Mitchell.= Pauline, and other studies in early Christian history. *$3. Armstrong.
7–29067.
A group of fifteen essays touching upon the character of Paul, the authorship of the Acts and early Christianity in Asia Minor. They have been collected from various British magazines and are accompanied by a great number of illustrations.
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“The book exhibits all those qualities which we are accustomed to look for in Professor Ramsay’s writings; freshness of standpoint, flashes of insight only possible to a scholar of rich and varied learning, unflagging zest in the handling of his subject—a zest which communicates itself to the reader—and that lucid and forcible style which has done so much to popularize the results of his investigations.” H. A. A. Kennedy.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 527. Jl. ’07. 1330w.
=Ath.= 1907, 1: 130. F. 2. 820w.
“Many possess permanent value.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 160. F. ’07. 60w.
“Since the author confessedly speaks as ‘a historian and geographer,’ one cannot fail to notice the dogmatic tone that marks some of his purely theological utterances.” George H. Gilbert.
+ − =Bib. World.= 30: 294. O. ’07. 1030w.
=Ind.= 62: 505. D. 28, ’07. 50w.
“The title is inexact and the unity of character in the studies slight.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 82. Ja. 24, ’07. 70w.
“Not only does Professor Ramsay bring fresh and valuable instruction from the field of his special study, but he renders good service as a judicious moderator of the schools of critics.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 46. Ja. 5, ’07. 270w.
“The pages dealing with the life of St. Paul are perhaps the most interesting in the book, not only intrinsically, but because Professor Ramsay is so great an authority on the subject.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1013. Je. 29, ’07. 170w.
=Randal, John.= Sweetest solace. $1.50. Dutton.
7–7197.
Gascoigne square, Whitborough, is made the scene of a pretty love story in which two young girls from Australia come into the square as mistresses of a board school. Here they meet a number of interesting people, differing widely in character and social position, and here the mystery of their father, who had lived his young life in this very square, is unravelled, leaving them free to marry the two young men of wealth and family who have come to love them. It is not the mystery, however, which is uppermost for interest centers around the quaint characters and their old prejudices: the social climbers, dear old Miss Blackiston, wholehearted Ben Cox, Lord Streybridge, narrow-minded Mrs. Petch, spiteful Miss Marston, and all the others.
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+ =Nation.= 84: 291. Mr. 28, ’07. 120w.
“This is a pleasant story reproducing something of the Trollope atmosphere. But Mr. Randal lays the colours on too thickly when depicting a cad.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 102: 148. Ag. 4, ’06. 160w.
* =Rannie, David Watson.= Wordsworth and his circle. (Memoir ser.) **$3.50. Putnam.
“Criticism, quotation, narrative, and anecdote are so woven together as to form a single piece.... Coleridge moves through the scenes, with the divine light ever waning in his eyes; Lamb banters and praises; Southey, Christopher North, Dr. Arnold, De Quincey, Scott, Rogers, Keats, come and go, speak and listen, and range themselves in proper perspective about the central, still lonely figure.”—Nation.
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“Though well-read and in the main judicious, he occasionally makes odd slips in his critical remarks. The style is always graceful and dignified, and we do not hesitate to affirm that this is the best book yet written for any one who wishes to breathe, so to speak, the very atmosphere in which these men moved.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 1130w.
“This is a desultory but an entertaining, and often suggestive, book on a subject which has grown somewhat worn.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 550. N. 2, ’07. 190w.
=Ransom, Olive.= Woman’s heart: manuscripts found in the papers of Katherine Peshconet and ed. by her executor, Olive Ransom. †$1.50. Doubleday.
6–11548.
The diary of a woman who loved a priest. “It is difficult to imagine a twentieth-century Abelard receiving letters from an American Héloïse; letters so quivering with intensity of emotion and with also a touch of classicism that would have suited well the Renaissance spirit.” (Ind.) “As for Katherine, if hers was a woman’s heart, then, indeed, is a woman a daughter of Eve. She argued through years, got what she wanted, and died for it.” (N. Y. Times.) The book “tells an interesting story, altho its hold is purely psychical.” (Ind.)
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“The old arguments against the theories and practices of the Roman Catholic church, even here in America, are reiterated with amazing vivacity and freshness.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 445. F. 21, ’07. 220w.
“The book leaves a bad taste in one’s mouth.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 11: 238. Ap. 14, ’06. 500w.
* =Ransome, Arthur.= Bohemia in London. **$1.50. Dodd.
Here is presented London’s historical and present-day Bohemia with the Parisian “tinsel and sham” wanting. “The ‘Bohemia in London’ is distinctly British and not Gallic; it is founded on the same code of laws as that which prevailed in the more famous Bohemia of Paris; there is no exaggeration in its pictures and there is no suppression of realities.” (Ind.)
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“His book, if not exciting, is readable enough.” G. S. S.
+ =Acad.= 73: 158. N. 23, ’07. 520w.
=Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 160w.
“I feel very confident that ‘Bohemia in London’ will prove a distinct literary success. I can say with conviction that the book gives the most life-like picture of that London quarter which the author sets himself to describe. The book is rich in humorous descriptions and portraitures, has many pathetic scenes, and gleams here and there with genuine poetic feeling.” Justin McCarthy.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1420. D. 12, ’07. 200w.
“The book is entertainingly and thoughtfully written.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 10. S. 28, ’07. 360w.
=Raper, Charles Lee.= Principles of wealth and welfare; economics for high schools. *$1.10. Macmillan.
6–24099.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book contains little or nothing that is original either in material or treatment. Moreover. it does not seem at all adapted to the use for which its author intends it.”
− =Yale R.= 15: 468. F. ’07. 120w.
=Rappaport, Philip.= Looking forward: a treatise on the status of woman and the origin and growth of the family and the state. $1. Kerr.
6–23736.
“As the preface states, ‘this book is written from the standpoint of historic materialism.’ Its aim is to show how past forms of the family and of the state have been determined by economic conditions, especially by methods of production, and to demonstrate incidentally that Marxian socialism is the only means of social salvation and the natural goal of development. The author shows considerable acquaintance with the socialist school of social and economic writers, but beyond that his acquaintance with the scientific literature of the subjects upon which he writes is very limited.”—Am. J. Soc.
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“Like all socialist writers, he makes large use of Buckle and Morgan, but he seems utterly unaware of the works of later investigators which long since have made Buckle and Morgan out of date.” Charles A. Ellwood.
− =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 563. Ja. ’07. 250w.
“It is an extremely valuable book, because it is fundamental in character and rationalistic in method of treatment. There is, therefore, no appeal to emotionalism, sentimentality or prejudice that would tend to cloud the reason or obscure the unbiased judgment.”
+ + =Arena.= 37: 443. Ap. ’07. 3280w.
=Rashdall, Hastings.= Theory of good and evil: a treatise on moral philosophy. 2v. *$4.75. Oxford.
7–18191.
“In the first instance it is intended for ‘undergraduate students in philosophy,’ and is not supposed to assume any previous acquaintance either with ethics or with general philosophy. In the second place, it aims at working out an ethical theory which shall be in some sense a higher synthesis of Green and Sidgwick, to whose memory the book is dedicated.” (Lond. Times.) “In the first volume, Mr. Rashdall deals with the fundamental conceptions of ethics.... In the second volume the author examines what he regards as the metaphysical implications of ethics, but he hardly proves the propriety of introducing such a discussion Into a treatise on moral philosophy.” (Nation.)
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“This treatise, though concerned with the investigation of profound questions, is singularly successful in its avoidance of all ponderosity and pedantry. Written in a pleasing style, it is readable throughout. The problems discussed are clearly presented, the line of argument is always developed with logical care and dialetical skill, the discussions of even the most abstract questions are uniformly lucid and illuminating. Much of the suggestive power of the work is derived from the wealth of pertinent illustration, upon his abundant store of which the author draws freely.” A. R. Gifford.
+ + =J. Philos.= 4: 548. S. 26, ’07. 1900w.
“In spite of the disadvantages incident to his plan, Dr. Rashdall has produced a very readable and useful book. Without being strikingly original his criticisms and contentions touch fundamental issues and rest upon a full knowledge of ethical thought in the past as well as of recent discussions. One of the features of the book is its fairmindedness and moderation.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 290. S. 27, ’07. 1690w.
“The discussion is generally sympathetic—often entertaining, and in attention to details the author has been industrious and thorough. Yet the final impression left upon the reader is that of logical looseness and structural weakness.”
− + =Nation.= 85: 331. O. 10, ’07. 870w.
“The chief merits of his book [are] clearness and force with which the problem of morality is stated and the fearlessness with which the author follows out his own solution.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 1004. Je. 29, ’07. 1800w.
=Rauschenbusch, Walter.= Christianity and the social crisis. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–13925.
The author begins his study of tracing the relations of Christianity to the social crisis as far back as the days of the greater Hebrew prophets. He finds reasons for the “halting and groping,” conscience of Christendom, “perplexed by contradicting voices” and finds reasons for “freeing an honest man’s heart” on the maxims of the past and the imperious call of the future.
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“Of less value is the later and constructive part of the work where an attempt is made to outline the immediate measures which should be taken to mitigate the evils of our time. Such questions cannot be successfully treated in the form of rhetorical appeals to somewhat vague and elementary feelings and without a mastery of technical economic reasoning which is not revealed in the work itself.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 249. O. 16, ’07. 170w.
“There is not room here to show the successive stages by which Professor Rauschenbusch builds up his structure of thought to its culmination: we can only say that nothing in it is set down in carelessness or in ignorance, and that it cannot be ignored by any one who would understand the social thought of today.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 572. S. 5, ’07. 410w.
“Professor Rauschenbusch writes in the heat of religious zeal and with reforming passion.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 39. Jl. 11, ’07. 530w.
“It is a book to like, to learn from, and, though the theme be sad and serious, to be charmed with.” Joseph O’Connor.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 345. Je. 1, ’07. 1900w.
“While its argument is strongly based on economic, historical, ethical, and religious grounds, its temper and tone, admirably dispassionate and judicial, commend it to fairminded men.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 264. O. 5, ’07. 1100w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 637. My. ’07. 80w.
=Raven, John Howard.= Old Testament introduction. general and special. **$2. Revell.
6–3543.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The section on the ‘Text’ is rather uneven. ‘The Pentateuch in general’ is handled somewhat in detail, and always to the detriment of the modern view. We are still more amazed that a modern textbook should be published without an index of any kind. This is inexcusable.” Ira M. Price and John M. P. Smith.
− =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 140. Ja. ’07. 310w.
=Raven, John James.= Bells of England; with 60 il. (Antiquary’s books.) *$3. Dutton.
7–2433.
The result of a sixty years’ study of campanology. “It is a work that can scarcely fail to give satisfaction to any who are interested in the story of bells, whether experts or novices. The Celtic, Saxon, Norman, Plantagenet, and Tudor use of bells, and the history of the later foundries are fully discussed; whilst other chapters tell of particular dedications, of change-ringing, of chime barrels and carillons, of handbells or tintinnabula, of bell usages and laws, and of the legends and poetry to which they have given birth.” (Ath.)
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“The critic looks in vain for sins of commission.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 307. S. 15. 350w.
“Dr. Raven’s book puts a new and deeper meaning into a thousand familiar quotations and allusions, and makes understandable numerous rites and customs that may previously have been past over without a thought of their significance.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 825. O. 3, ’07. 170w.
“A volume highly creditable to his patient industry.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 202. Ap. 6, ’07. 420w.
“Mr. Raven’s book is well worth the notice of students, serious and slight, of the subject.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 102: 713. D. 8, ’06. 150w.
“A book which should take a high place in the literature of the subject.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 339. S. 8, ’06. 280w.
=Ravenel, Harriott Horry.= Charleston; the place and the people. **$2.50. Macmillan.
6–42434.
A story that “has more to do with the antebellum Charleston than with the city of to-day. A great store of local history and tradition has been freely drawn upon in the preparation of this work, while the artist, Vernon Howe Bailey, has co-operated ably with the author in picturing the distinctive architectural features of South Carolina’s stately and dignified capital.” (R. of Rs.)
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“It is in a fine spirit of reverence for the traditions of her home-land that Mrs. St. Julien Ravenel has written this volume.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 291. My. 1, ’07. 260w.
“The book is of peculiar interest, not only for the information it contains, but for the manner in which all is presented.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 738. Mr. 28, ’07. 530w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 106. Ja. 19, ’07. 150w.
“It has much of the haunting fascination peculiar to the old town.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 886. D. 22, ’06. 510w.
“Mrs. Ravenel writes with loyalty, deep interest, and great care for important detail. She infuses into otherwise dry history the elusive charm of a vivacious and discriminating mind.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 41. Ja. 5, ’07. 420w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 110. Ja. ’07. 70w.
=Ray, Anna Chapin.= Ackroyd of the faculty. †$1.50. Little.
7–12975.
Ackroyd, the young professor of much intellect and worse than no family, comes in contact with a wholly new social scheme of things thru his position on the faculty of a great university. The daughter of the head of his department stands for the world of culture he has never known and the influence of these two characters upon each other forms the story of the book. In the end, of course, each finds in the other all that an early environment had failed to give.
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“This is the best of the three faculty stories recently published. It is better worked out and stronger than Miss Ray’s previous work.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 180. O. ’07. ✠
“The book is charmingly written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 299. My. 11, ’07. 280w.
“The story offers some unusual attractions to the discriminating reader.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 140w.
=Ray, Anna Chapin.= Day: her year in New York. il. †$1.50. Little.
7–30834.
The third volume in Miss Ray’s “Sydney books.” It deals largely with the development of Phyllis, Sydney’s younger sister, an untamed, withal sensitive girl, who needs people and kindness to bring out the best in her.
=Raymond, George Lansing.= Essentials of aesthetics in music, poetry, painting, sculpture, and architecture. **$2.50. Putnam.
7–3936.
A handbook in which the author “traces the phenomena of the arts to their sources in material nature and the human mind; he shows that the different arts have been developed by similar methods and that these methods characterize the entire work of artistic imagination.... There are chapters on nature, art, beauty, artistic mental action, form, and significance, the personality of the authors, art composition, rhythm and proportion.... There are a large number of half-tone illustrations and pen-and-ink sketches.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Some of his essays, notably that on Rhythm, are full of interesting suggestion, and prove that their author, whatever else he may lack, is a master of literary style.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 31: 249. My. ’07. 290w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 273. Ap. 27, ’07. 550w.
“It can be said that its superior in an effective, all-around discussion of its subject is not in sight.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 621. Mr. 16, ’07. 270w.
“As a whole, the work lacks those psychological foundations which many of us consider desirable in a treatise on aesthetics. As a result, the subject matter is more that of art theory than of aesthetics in any broad sense. Yet the pervading tone is one of sanity and tolerance which will commend the book to many. We cannot, perhaps, agree entirely with the author’s own estimate of his work.” Robert Morris Ogden.
− + =Psychol. Bull.= 4: 225. Jl. 15, ’07. 1310w.
=Rea, Hope.= Peter Paul Rubens. $1.75. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Acad.= 70: 617. Je. 20, ’06. 200w.
=Reade, Charles.= Cloister and the hearth. $1.25. Crowell.
Uniform with the thin paper, limp leather reprints. It is prefaced by an “Appreciation” of Charles Reade by Algernon C. Swinburne, reprinted from “Miscellanies.”
=Reade, Willoughby.= When hearts were true. $1. Neale.
7–25510.
The title expresses the thought uppermost in four good short stories, as follows: His last song, Forgive us our trespasses, For the child’s sake, and The ghost of Oak Ridge.
Readers’ guide to periodical literature, 1900–1904, cumulated; ed. by Anna Lorraine Guthrie. $16. Wilson, H. W.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Some of the periodicals seem too trivial for such a record, whereas neither of the English quarterlies is represented. But on the whole the work bears all the marks of being well planned and carefully edited.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 34. Ja. 10, ’07. 90w.
=Reagan, Harry Clifton.= Locomotives, simple, compound, and electric. $3.50. Wiley.
7–11983.
In the fifth edition of this practical treatise on the locomotive engine and its handling in service, the work has been revised in order to include the latest developments of steam and electric locomotives.
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“There is no doubt but what a great deal of information for the practical engineer can be obtained from this book, but it is a pity that the arrangement has not been more systematic and that so many prominent and important parts of the locomotive have been omitted from discussion.” G. R. Henderson.
− + =Engin. N.= 57: 666. Je. 13, ’67. 1260w.
=Reagan, John Henninger.= Memoirs, with special reference to secession and the civil war; ed. by Walter Flavius McCaleb; with introd. by George P. Garrison. $3. Neale.
6–34012.
“The book itself is short, embracing but three hundred and fifty pages of not very compact print. The main topics treated are the author’s early life in Texas, his part in Congress during three or four years prior to 1861, the organization of the Confederacy at Montgomery, the civil war, as viewed by an active and efficient cabinet officer in Richmond, and the problems of reconstruction. The most interesting portion of the book is the plain, unvarnished story of Reagan’s hardships and early struggles.”—Am. Hist. R.
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“The editing of the work has been very well done.” William E. Dodd.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 679. Ap. ’07. 700w.
=Ind.= 62: 1166. My. 3, ’07. 100w.
“Are partly dull and partly interesting. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that Mr. Reagan’s recollections of the early days of Texan independence is not particularly lively. As postmaster general of the Confederacy, however, Mr. Reagan stands on firmer ground, and has written pages that are not without future historical value.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 81. Ja. 24, ’07. 140w.
=Spec.= 99: 397. S. 21, ’07. 430w.
=Reed, Helen Leah.= Napoleon’s young neighbor. †$1.50. Little.
7–34325.
A side-light story based upon the “Recollections of Napoleon at St. Helena” by Mrs. Abell. It tells of Napoleon’s friendship for a little girl, Betsy Balcombe, at whose house, “The Briars,” he spent the first ten weeks of his banishment.
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“Is a bit of history interestingly written.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 50w.
=Reed, Myrtle.= Love affairs of literary men. **$1.50. Putnam.
7–31403.
The author brings out of their lavender the love-memories of Swift, Pope, Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, Cowper, Carlyle, Poe, Shelley and Keats.
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+ =Dial.= 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 80w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 696. N. 9, ’07. 350w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 70w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 684. O. 26, ’07. 150w.
“A collection of more or less well-known facts, retold in pleasant fashion. A book that will find favor among the many whose appetite prefers entrées to joints.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 453. O. 26, ’07. 170w.
=Reed, Myrtle.= Spinner in the sun. **$1.50. Putnam.
6–33577.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“This story—especially the earlier part of it—has both charm and originality, its diction being excellent, and the characters, if not altogether life-like, well imagined.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 797. D. 22. 90w.
“The only trouble is that the author has resorted to narcotics in order to produce effects sufficiently weird in the minds of her characters, and, as is too often the case with women writers, she cannot quite achieve the dramatic without falling into the melodramatic.”
− =Ind.= 62: 215. Ja. 24, ’07. 290w.
=Rees, Arthur Dougherty.= Double love; a tragedy in five acts. †$1. Winston.
7–17377.
In this poem-drama of American life a modern capitalist in blank verse, insists that his daughter’s love must choose between her and his other love, a literary career. He demands that he “walk the Rialto of true trade, the mart of traffic.” Naturally tragedy is the artistic result.
=Reich, Emil.= Success in life. **$1.50. Duffield.
7–11564.
The philosophy of success is the outgrowth of definite basic principles. Mr. Reich denounces the “fluke” idea of success and plants success on the principle of energetics. The hope of the author is to establish an ideal so universal that it may be used by anyone in any walk of life for the attaining of honest, successful results.
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“In spite of this ill-advised plan of constructing a mathematical framework on which to fashion a body of doctrine dealing with the most unmathematical of subjects, the book is so fresh, so unconventional, so ingenious, and so suggestive, that its weaknesses and imperfections do not need to plead very hard for forgiveness. He has the readiness, not to say looseness, of the fluent talker and lecturer, but little of the exactness, the terseness, the fine reserve of the scholarly and painstaking writer.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 230. Ap. 1, ’07. 420w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 742. Mr. 28, ’07. 60w.
“He is the possessor of a lucid and attractive style which enables him to clothe abstract and even trite themes with a new and timely interest.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 640. Ap. 20, ’07. 370w.
“The book, however, has an interest and value not promised in its title. The whole book is written with reference to British conditions. As a criticism of these it is interesting. Dr. Reich is a Teutonic Max O’Rell, who has read Schopenhauer and Herbert Spencer.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 479. My. 23, ’07. 440w.
“Dr. Reich’s misfortune is that he presents real and false explanations with equal confidence and equal felicity. His merit is that he is always readable and always suggestive, even when he is as wrong as sheer ignorance or rash haste to conclusions can make any man.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 155. Mr. 16, ’07. 1620w.
“A sagacious writer he is, though at times amusingly otherwise.”
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 767. Mr. 30, ’07. 210w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 759. Je. ’07. 80w.
=Reichel, Rev. George Valentine.= Bible truths through eye and ear. **$1. Whittaker.
6–45727.
A volume of “object teachings,” written for children, based upon such subjects as Harbors, Fog-signals, Life-saving, Lessons of the snow, Knots, Having salt, Fort builders, Like unto clear glass, and a great many more.
=Reid, George Archdall.= Principles of heredity, with some applications. *$3.50. Dutton.
5–40286.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“The book not only lacks evidences of seasoned thought, but of familiarity with the more recent literature bearing on the discussion of heredity, and, on the whole, is a disappointing analysis of the subject. Nevertheless, we believe it will be of service on account of the new point of view adopted and the citing of evidences hearing on heredity furnished by disease.” William A. Locy.
− + =Science=, n.s. 25: 60. Ja. 11, ’07. 1400w.
=Reid, Homer A.= Concrete and reinforced concrete construction. *$5. Clark, M. C.
7–6665.
“The book is divided into 34 chapters. The subject matter may be grouped as follows: Cement and its manufacture and tests, the aggregate, proportioning, mixing and placing concrete, cost of work, and finishing concrete surfaces, 132 pages; physical and elastic properties of concrete and steel, 85 pages; principles and style of reinforcement, mechanical bond, curved pieces subject to flexure, and columns, walls, and pipes, 53 pages; theory of flexure of beams and strength of columns with formula and calculations, 136 pages; foundations, 58 pages; general building and construction and matters connected with practical construction, 142 pages; retaining walls, dams, conduits and sewers, tank and reservoir construction, chimneys, tunnels, etc., 144 pages; bridges, arches, piers and abutments, 104 pages; concrete building blocks, 20 pages.”—Engin. N.
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“The analytical or theoretical portion of the book is its weakest feature. On the whole, with a few important items to be excepted, the analytical treatment is more complete than that in other books which have appeared. The general plan of the book is excellent, the proportioning of parts good, and the manner of presentation commendable. In some minor particulars objection may be made to the exact order of presentation, and some headings and forms of statement need editing.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 301. Mr. ’07. 3180w.
=Reid, Rev. John.= Jesus and Nicodemus: a study in spiritual life. *$1.75. Scribner.
A series of studies given in the form of lectures or sermons to different congregations in Scotland. “The conversation with Nicodemus peculiarly invites exposition, not only because of the far-reaching truth contained in it, but also because from our knowledge of the historical situation we are enabled to fill out the scene which the gospel gives in bare outline. Mr. Reid has become himself master of the historical situation, and has thus made luminous the mental attitude of Nicodemus. He has also given the right place to the reflective illumination of the mind of the evangelist as it came to a larger, fuller understanding of Jesus.” (Am. J. Theol.)
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“There is perhaps only one interpretation which will not meet with general acceptance. Would that we had more of such penetrating, illuminating, vital interpretations of the scenes of the fourth gospel.”
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 534. Jl. ’07. 460w.
“Characterized by literary skill and religious insight.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 239. Mr. ’07. 20w.
=Reid, Stuart J.= Life and letters of the first Earl of Durham (1792–1840). 2v. *$10. Longmans.
7–10998.
An authoritative and detailed biography of John George Lambton, first Earl of Durham; “The Durham book has been written with full access to the letters and papers of Lord Durham, and will throw a new light on the reform struggle of 1830, the secret history of the reform bill of 1832, on the creation of the kingdom of Belgium, on the affairs of Russia, when Durham pleaded for the Poles, and subsequently when he was Ambassador at St. Petersburg; on the strange vicissitudes of the Whigs under Grey and Melbourne, and much else that will be much worth reading.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“Of the misrepresentations to which he was exposed and all else pertaining to this interesting chapter of his life Mr. Reid writes fully and well.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 465. N. 10, ’06. 970w.
“If one essays the task of criticizing Mr. Reid one must add that his work is only moderately well done. He lacks conciseness and sometimes lucidity; his matter is not always well arranged, not always pertinent, not always quite accurate. He makes too great a hero of Durham and resents too obviously any unfavorable criticism by his contemporaries.” George M. Wrong.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 637. Ap. ’07. 780w.
“Mr. Stuart Reid has acquitted himself with credit as the recorder of a brief and brilliant career. He has studied his authorities carefully. and though a good deal of an enthusiast, he is fairly alive to his hero’s shortcomings. Wordiness and prolixity unfortunately disfigure his otherwise acceptable volumes.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 539. N. 3. 2100w.
“There appears only one statement with regard to Canadian history which need be questioned.” H. E. Egerton.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 187. Ja. ’07. 620w.
“An obvious and long existing gap in English political biography is now filled.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1209. My. 23. ’07. 780w.
“He furnishes us for the first time with copious and well nigh exhaustive materials for forming our own judgment. But he is rather long-winded, and he is a little too blind to the real defects of Durham’s personal character and political temper.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 357. O. 26, ’06. 3320w.
“These volumes are an extreme illustration of that obsession of bigness which now seems to afflict most writers of English biography.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 111. Ja. 31, ’07. 530w.
“The book is a painstaking—even laborious—survey of the life of a very interesting man. The author has a strong bias in favor of his subject, which is not always an advantage to the reader.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 106. F. 23, ’07. 1330w.
“Must at once be ranked among the great biographies of English statesmen of the nineteenth century. It is one of the class to which Parker’s ‘Peel,’ and Morley’s ‘Gladstone’ belong. As a literary achievement its place is alongside the ‘Life of Peel’ rather than alongside Morley’s ‘Life of Gladstone.’” Edward Porritt.
+ + − =No. Am.= 184: 755. Ap. 5, ’07. 1790w.
“Like most biographers, Mr. Reid paints the character of his hero in too bright colors, and he claims entirely too much for him as a statesman.” W. Roy Smith.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 2: 363. Je. ’07. 1060w.
“Durham has found in Mr. Reid a capable and warmly sympathetic biographer.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 50. Ja. 12, ’07. 2430w.
“As a biographer Mr. Reid is painstaking, industrious, and inordinately appreciative, but we cannot think that the style he has adopted was the best in which to write the ‘Life’ of so curious a personality. His is the old-fashioned type of biography, filled with moralisings and platitudes, very wordy and very lengthy.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 727. N. 10, ’06. 1830w.
=Reid, Whitelaw.= Greatest fact in modern history. **75c. Crowell.
7–6398.
The greatest fact in modern history which Mr. Reid presents is the rise and development of the United States from a group of struggling colonies to its position of commanding power among the nations. He says two factors operating in American success have been character and circumstance.
=Reid, William Maxwell.= Story of old Fort Johnson; il. by John Arthur Maney. **$3. Putnam.
6–34695.
A sketch occasioned by the recent purchase and presentation to the Montgomery county historical society of old Fort Johnson, the most historic house in the Mohawk valley to-day. The story closely connects people and events associated with the famous “first baronial mansion in New York” with the history of the Mohawk valley.
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“An interesting, rambling tale; it is a mixture of history, fiction, ethnology and gossip.” C. H. Rammelkamp.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 397. Ja. ’07. 500w.
“To the lover of the old, the wild, the picturesque in early American life, the book will possess charm; to the general reader, it will supply abundant detail with which to reconstruct a most romantic period. To the historian, it will offer a reason for doing the work over again.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 42. Jl. 4, ’07. 400w.
“His facts will be accepted as accurate, and some of them are here brought together for the first time.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 33: 686. N. 10, ’06. 160w.
“He is well versed in early history, but he should have had the guidance of hands more accomplished than his own in the art of putting a book together properly.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 559. D. 27, ’06. 630w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 893. D. 22, ’06. 330w.
“Its chief blemishes are discursiveness, fragmentariness, and unnecessary repetition; its virtues are enthusiasm, informativeness, and entertainment.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 680. N. 17, ’06. 140w.
=Reinach, Salomon.= Apollo; tr. from the French by Florence Simmonds. **$1.50. Scribner.
7–15337.
A new edition, expanded and furnished with editorial matter to date, of a work which long ago appeared under the title, “The story of art throughout the ages.” The book comprises twenty-five lectures delivered by Dr. Reinach during 1902–1903 at the Ècole du Louvre upon the historic schools of art. There are abundant illustrations and an ample bibliography. “The original title is restored, and the additions, concerning British art, are now inclosed in square brackets, so that one may know when one is reading M. Reinach and when one is reading Miss Simmonds.” (Nation.)
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+ =Acad.= 72: 137. F. 9, ’07. 1250w.
“A second edition ... which is an improvement noon the first.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 418. My. 2, ’07. 210w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 502. Ag. 17, ’07. 160w.
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 526. Jl. 6, ’07. 70w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 383. S. ’07. 60w.
“It is a really uncommon achievement.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 464. Mr. 23, ’07. 160w.
=Reinsch, Paul Samuel.= American legislatures and legislative methods. *$1.25. Century.
7–8279.
A critical exposition of the manner in which the law making bodies—state and federal—in the United States are organized and operated.
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“All things considered, Professor Reinsch’s volume is an important addition to the literature of American politics. It is a contribution both to the understanding of the present situation and to the establishment of a better method for future studies of a similar character.” Charles Edward Merriam.
+ + − =Am. J. Soc.= 13: 118. Jl. ’07. 700w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 127. My. ’07. S.
“As a whole the book is the best presentation of this subject in limited space which has yet appeared.” Luther F. Witmer.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 615. N. ’07. 460w.
Reviewed by Max West.
+ =Dial.= 43: 120. S. 1, ’07. 700w.
“A most admirable volume of a practical sort.”
+ =Educ. R.= 34: 209. S. ’07. 90w.
“Without a doubt there is room in the citizen’s library for such a useful and suggestive study of national and state politics.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 998. O. 24, ’07. 630w.
“He finds so many and such serious defects in our system of government and sees so plainly the forces of selfishness on one hand and of indifference and ignorance on the other hand, with which reform has to contend, and he describes both with such clearness that the reader will be likely to rise from the study of the volume in a discouraged mood.” Edward Cary.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 156. Mr. 16, ’07. 1150w.
“In every way the volume is not only informative but suggestive, and is eminently thorough in treatment.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 719. Mr. 23, ’07. 130w.
“A work of great value, that marks a distinct advance in scientific treatment of legislative procedure. He has grasped a principle of cardinal importance, oversight of which is a common defect in academic study of political institutions, namely, that the character of institutions is to be found in their working.” Henry Jones Ford.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 713. D. ’07. 1270w.
“Professor Reinsch’s method of treatment is frankly critical.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 509. Ap. ’07. 140w.
* =Reissig, Carl.= Standard family physician: a practical international encyclopedia of medicine and hygiene especially prepared for the household. 2v. $13. Funk.
7–15943.
In this undertaking Professor Reissig has been assisted by Smith Ely Jelliffe and nearly fifty associate editors. “Taken as a whole, the work is a commendable effort to lead the layman to take a rational view of diseases and of ‘the results which may be reasonably expected from therapeutic measures.’ The opposition to quackery in its various forms, to all the ‘pathies,’ and to ‘natural’ methods is praiseworthy and ought to do good.” (Nation.)
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“While ordinarily such works are likely to do at least as much harm as good, there seems to be no reason why this one should not prove a source of benefit in every way to its readers.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1005. O. 24. ’07. 340w.
“In general, it may be said that too little attention is paid to the emergencies of domestic life, the very conditions where such a book is most needed in families at a distance from medical aid.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 522. D. 5, ’07. 300w.
Religion of Christ in the twentieth century. **$1.50. Putnam.
6–2998.
“The unnamed author’s theme is the radical question of our time, ‘What is Christianity?’ and his text is Lessing’s remark, ‘The Christian religion has been tried for eighteen centuries; the religion of Christ remains to be tried.’ By the Christian religion is meant a body of religious doctrine supported by an ecclesiastical organization. The religion of Christ is the attitude of the spirit toward God and man that Jesus manifested as controlling his life.”—Outlook.
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Reviewed by Gerald Birney Smith.
=Am. J. Theol.= 11: 704. O. ’07. 370w.
“The book is a shrewd, discerning critique of regnant forms of piety, and a discriminating projection of the faith and theology that ought to come.”
+ + =Ind.= 61: 1038. N. 1, ’06. 280w.
“These thoughts have been uttered before, but never more clearly or attractively, and they well express the spirit in which the movement for the improvement of theology should proceed.”
+ + =Outlook.= 82: 326. F. 10, ’06. 370w.
* Remco’s. Manual of apartment house service. **$1. McClure.
Under “General instructions” there are rules applicable to every contingency apt to arise in an apartment building. Such subjects as the conduct of heating apparatus, the eradication of vermin, the technicalities of elevators, steam and hot-water boilers and engineering and sanitary details about the apartment house.
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“What a paradise apartment life would be if this book were widely circulated and its contents enforced.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 536. N. 14, ’07. 200w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 669. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Rexford, Eben Eugene.= Four seasons in the garden: with 27 il. and with decorations by Edward S. Holloway. **$1.50. Lippincott.
7–16936.
Gardening for the home-maker is treated in all its phases by the “foremost amateur gardener of the United States.” The book treats of the making and care of the lawn, flowerbeds. back-yard gardens and window boxes, of the more ambitious garden of the suburbanite and the country dweller, and concludes with two chapters on village and rural improvement societies.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 171. O. ’07. S.
“The book is not what its title might indicate—a guide to the seasons in their order. It is likely to be most serviceable to beginners in garden making. The author’s language is simple, his style is popular, and he gives facts and instruction in an easily understood form.”
+ =Dial.= 40: 367. Je. 16, ’07. 410w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 547. D. 12, ’07. 50w.
“A gathering into one unusually attractive volume, from the standpoint of the maker of books, of all the knowledge which has been coming piecemeal from this prolific writer on the gentle subject through many years.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 240w.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
“It contains clear and definite instruction.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 119. My. 18, ’07. 70w.
=Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie-.= Dull girl’s destiny. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
The “dull girl” is twenty-six, and inexperienced, yet able to produce “novels esteemed worthy to rank as a ‘counterblast’ to the plays of Bernard Shaw.” (Ath.) “However, the interest of the story centres, not in the question whether the heroine could have written the novels of Jane Smith, but in the description of contemporary manners and the amusing sketches which the author gives us of her dramatis personae.” (Spec.)
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“In liveliness and brightness the novel is much above the average.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 723. Je. 15. 190w.
“The heavy artillery of analysis, should not be trained upon an amiable, unpretentious story of this kind, since its obvious qualities are neither subtlety nor penetration but a wholesome right-mindedness, a mild humor, and unfailing good taste.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 168. Ag. 22, ’07. 140w.
“All but two characters are so odious as to arouse the reader’s personal resentment.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 488. Ag. 10, ’07. 290w.
“Although the plot ... invites criticism, still the book is pleasant and entertaining reading.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 984. Je. 22, ’07. 220w.
=Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie-.= Thalassa. †$1.50. Brentano’s.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The author’s innate strain of romanticism would not permit her to write the evenly sustained story of a simple life which she appears to have been qualified to do.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 182. Ap. ’07. 400w.
“Its characters and its mystery are alike improbable; but the writer knows how to tell her story.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 69. F. 2, ’07. 350w.
=Rhead, George Woolliscroft.= Chats on costume; with 117 il. *$2. Stokes.
W 7–41.
A book which begins with a general survey of the subject and follows with “brief accounts of the development and history of the tunic, mantle, doublet and hose, kirtle or petticoat, crinoline, collars and cuffs, hats, caps and bonnets, dressing of the hair, mustachios and beard, and boots, shoes, and coverings of the feet.” (A. L. A. Bkl.)
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“Felicitously conceived and successfully accomplished. Mr. Rhead is a pleasant writer, and his facts, quotations, and verses are judiciously selected.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 246. Mr. 9, ’07. 220w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 127. My. ’07.
=Rhead, George Woolliscraft, and Rhead, Frederick Alfred.= Staffordshire pots and potters. *$6.50. Dodd.
7–38577.
“To the amateur as well as to the expert collector, the book, with its clear definitions of the peculiarities differentiating the work of one potter from another, and its wealth of illustrations. some of them in colour, of the treasures in museums and private collections, will be a mine of wealth; but it will also appeal forcibly to the antiquarian and historian, for the authors have made a point of tracing the condition between the progress of their art and the advance of civilization.... Especially fascinating is the chapter on the passing of the Elerses—the predecessors of Wedgwood.”—Int. Studio.
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“Might well be called the romance of English ceramic art. so forcibly realized are the personalities of the craftsmen presented to the reader, so skillfully are the accounts of their technical triumphs interwoven with their life stories, and so vividly is the local colouring of their environment reproduced.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 31: 82. Mr. ’07. 330w.
“The book stands apart from most of the ceramic works published during recent years by reason of its independence and personal point of view.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 90. Mr. 22, ’07. 1540w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 60w.
“The authors are peculiarly fitted for the task they have set themselves.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 834. D. 14, ’07. 380w.
=Rhead, Louis John.= Bait angling for common fishes. *$1.25. Outing pub.
7–22908.
A handy volume of practical information on how to angle for common and familiar bottom fishes. A score or more varieties are discussed, carp, eel, perch, bass, etc., descriptions of their habits are given for the benefit of amateurs, and the whole is illustrated with drawings by the author.
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=Nation.= 85: 120. Ag. 8, ’07. 380w.
=Rhodes, Harrison.= Flight to Eden: a Florida romance. †$1.50. Holt.
7–30836.
Basil Forrester, London born and bred, finds that there is no place for him in England after his infidelity to his wife results in her suicide. He goes to Florida, begins life over, fostering only the impulses of primitive man. His love for a maiden of the wild impels him to relinquish every hold upon England. After years have passed he remembers that the house of Kingstowne must be perpetuated through him and sends his ten year old son back to be educated to the traditions of his title.
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“There is no question that Mr. Rhodes knows how to portray people and incidents in a way that forces you to see them. But he has something still to learn about the unities of construction.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 26: 409. D. ’07. 420w.
“A singular mingling of the crude and the romantic is here.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 140w.
=Outlook.= 87: 828. D. 14, ’07. 120w.
=Rhodes, James Ford.= History of the United States from the compromise of 1850 to the final restoration of Home rule in the South in 1877. 7v. v. 6–7. per set, **$17.50. Macmillan.
5–12579.
These concluding volumes of Mr. Rhodes’ history cover the period 1866–1877. “A peculiar claim can be made on behalf of a historian who writes candidly and yet firmly of the burning of Columbia under General Sherman, the disputed Hayes-Tilden election, and the whole melancholy reconstruction period.” (Lit. D.)
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“Dr. Rhodes possesses some of the most important qualities of the true historian. He has the judicial temper and he spares no pains in accumulating and sifting material. To an English reader he occasionally seems somewhat prolix though seldom actually tedious.”
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 793. Ag. 17, ’07. 2120w. (Review of v. 1–4.)
“As in volume 5 he finished what is on the whole our best history of the civil war, so in volume 7 he has finished the best history yet written of reconstruction. Unfortunately, however, the superlative does not in this second instance convey nearly so high praise as in the first. There exist several reasonably good histories of the war, but until these two volumes appeared there was no work covering the period of reconstruction which could be commended.” William Garrott Brown.
+ + − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 680. Ap. ’07. 2030w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 48. F. ’07. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
“It may be stated without fear of successful impeachment, that no other period of American history has been so well and interestingly written as the one covered by Mr. Rhodes. Although seven volumes have been devoted to the history of about thirty years, there is no useless detail to weary the reader, but a concise, well-balanced story, that can be followed with unflagging interest by the general student as well as the specialist.” J. W. Garner.
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 435. Mr. ’07. 1060w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
“His sense of proportion is artistic, as well as his perspective. Aside from the almost unexampled impartiality of judgment which the work displays throughout, its most striking characteristics to the lay leader will be found in its subordination of the literary to the judicial element.” Bernadotte Perrin.
+ + + =Atlan.= 99: 859. Je. ’07. 5850w. (Review of v. 8 and 7.)
“Dr. Rhodes’s works ... certainly carry the stamp of verisimilitude and have the force necessary to lure the reader on and invite him to return.” David Y. Thomas.
+ + + =Dial.= 42: 180. Mr. 16, ’07. 1640w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
“The evidence from quantity is abundantly supported by other evidence that Dr. Rhodes lost interest in his task after he had brought the story of actual warfare to a close, or perhaps, more exactly, after he had described the struggle between President Johnson and congress.” Wm. A. Dunning.
+ + − =Educ. R.= 34: 109. S. ’07. 2160w. (Review of v. 1–7.)
“The greatest historical work that has been written in America—great not in length alone, but in excellence of scholarship, and the magnitude and interest of his theme.”
+ + + =Ind.= 61: 1168. N. 15, ’06. 60w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
“Within the limits I have tried to indicate it is not easily overpraised. That, however, breeds regret—regret that once more a work so excellent as history should not be also excellent as literary art.” William Garrott Brown.
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 552. Mr. 7, ’07. 2700w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
“The work has the rare quality of being dispassionate and yet interesting.”
+ + + =Lit. D.= 34: 64. Ja. 12, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
“Mr. Rhodes is to be congratulated on having accomplished a difficult and laborious task with something like conspicuous success.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 242. Ag. 9, ’07. 1920w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
+ + =Nation.= 84: 14. Ja. 3, ’07. 1470w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
“It need hardly be said that these volumes have fully met the expectations of readers of their predecessors. He has set new standards in the study of and interpretation of events, in the use of materials, and in the generosity and kindliness of his estimates of men.” William E. Dodd.
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 4. Ja. 5, ’07. 3460w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
“Must be deemed pre-eminently the standard work for the period with which it deals, and a work so exhaustive and so able that it will probably be long before its supremacy is challenged.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 113. My. 18, ’07. 1760w. (Review of v. 1–7.)
“It seems probable that the general verdict will be that, though entitled to high praise, they are not in all respects up to the high standard set by some of the volumes that appeared before them.” Paul Leland Haworth.
+ + − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 513. S. ’07. 2710w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
“While not strikingly original either in his conceptions of the import of the events of his period or in the manner in which he sets them forth, Mr. Rhodes has given us a piece of historical narrative which will command respect for solidity, fairness, and accuracy.” John Spencer Bassett.
+ + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 252. My. ’07. 580w. (Review of v. 5–7.)
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 270w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
“Far the best existing narrative of the events which led up to and followed the civil war as well as of the war itself, apart from more merely technical military treatises.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 625. My. 18, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
“His one great limitation is that he has not penetrated deeply into the great underlying forces at work in our history and his judgments therefore are not always profound or such as will stand the test of time. Especially well suited for the reference library in our schools.” Webster Cook.
+ + − =School R.= 15: 716. D. ’07. 670w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
=Spec.= 98: 464. Mr. 23, ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
“Other subjects such as finance and currency, commercial crises, political corruption, the tariff, and the broader economic and social changes affecting American society are not ignored, as they were not in the previous volumes; but they are not adequately treated, and the author shows in his treatment of them none of that breadth of view and well-balanced judgment which appears in his account of the political controversies that have to do with slavery, the civil war and the reconstruction.” G: Stevens Callender.
+ + − =Yale R.= 16: 198. Ag. ’07. 3390w. (Review of v. 6 and 7.)
=Rhys, Ernest.= Fairy-gold; il. by Herbert Cole. $2.50. Dutton.
7–35196.
“Mr. Rhys has retold many legends and fairy tales of the semi-mythical days in England.” (Outlook.) “The first part contains old favorites, of many of which the editor has found new versions; the second part consists of shorter fables and stories; and the third of fairy tales, and poems from Browning, Elia, Keats, Tom Hood and others. The book is daintily gotten up and Mr. Herbert Cole’s illustrations are excellent.” (Acad.)
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“A delight to handle and to read.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 584. D. 8, ’06. 80w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 112. Ap. ’07.
“This is a book to find welcome.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 80w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 90w.
“The book is one to please older readers, but none the less for that will be acceptable to children.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 1083. D. 29, ’06. 80w.
“A very interesting and artistic production.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 70w.
=Ribot, Theodule Armand.= Essay on the creative imagination; tr. from the French, by Albert H. N. Baron. *$1.75. Open ct.
6–32845.
A discussion of the subject under the following heads: Analysis of the imagination, Development of the imagination, Types of imagination, Conclusion and Appendices.
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“As a manual to a region well worthy of exploration, the volume may be recommended both in the original and in the present form.”
+ =Dial.= 41: 244. O. 16, ’06. 340w.
“Mr. Baron has done us a service of some value in rendering into English M. Ribot’s monograph on the creative imagination. The translation sticks somewhat closely to the original idiom, but this is a virtue rather than a fault. It forms a valuable addition to the psychological literature on imagination.” Felix Arnold.
+ + =J. Philos.= 3: 695. D. 6, ’06. 800w.
“Like all its author’s work, it is suggestive and thorough.”
+ + − =Nature.= 76: 196. Je. 27, ’07. 100w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 530. O. 27, ’06. 150w.
=Rice, Mrs. Alice Caldwell (Hegan).= Captain June. †$1. Century.
7–29097.
The story of a dear little American boy who stays with his Japanese nurse in her country while his mother is in Manila nursing his sick father through a fever.
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“A charming tale.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 399. O. 5. 100w.
“Told with a certain freshness, although the situation is slight. Mrs. Rice has done better work.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 520. D. 5, ’07. 60w.
“Very charming.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 60w.
“Pleasantly told.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 310. O. 12, ’07. 50w.
“While in ‘Captain June’ Mrs. Alice Hegan Rice does not write with quite the same firmness of touch that characterizes the work of the author of ‘Emmy Lou,’ she, like Mrs. Martin, throws her picture upon the screen in clear, sharp light and shadow.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 763. D. ’07. 230w.
=Rice, Cale Young.= Night in Avignon [a drama], **50c. McClure.
7–15143.
The theme for Mr. Rice’s drama is “a momentary revolt on the part of Petrarch from the apparently unresponsive and remote Monna Laura, and the consequences in which it involves him.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The situation is conceived with an admirable intensity, but it is worked with such agitation of mood and manner that it fails to be pleasing or even convincing.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 35. Jl. 11, ’07. 270w.
“Though brief, and slight in detail, as a one-act play must necessarily be, it is nevertheless so vivid and the fusion is so complete between the dialogue and action that it embraces in small compass all the essentials of the drama.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 220. Ap. 6, ’07. 920w.
“Among the recent group of dramatic poets, Mr. Cale Young Rice ... has done excellent work, particularly worthy of comment on its architectonic side. Mr. Rice has an instinctive sense of dramatic relations; his dramas move by first intent and the unity of word and action is admirably maintained. His work is not without its immaturities.”
+ + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 350. Je. ’07. 120w.
=Rice, William de Groot C.=, comp. Book of American humorous verse, lea. $1.25. Duffield.
7–25551.
An anthology in which the verse of well-known American humorists appears.
=Rich, Charles Edward.= Voyage with Captain Dynamite. †$1. Barnes.
7–26459.
“The story of three boys who go out from Cottage City in a small yacht and who are caught in a storm and run down by a larger vessel, a filibuster. They are rescued by Captain Dynamite, who carries them off to Cuba. There, having sent word home that they were safe, they take part in many adventures and do, perhaps, a little more than a boy outside a book would be able to do. Harry Hamilton rescues Juanita, a young Cuban girl, who is in prison, and who escapes in his clothes.”—N. Y. Times.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 618. O. 12, ’07. 110w.
“Does not spare adventures, and boy readers will be thrilled by the excitements provided.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 270. O. 5, ’07. 70w.
=Rich, Walter Herbert.= Feathered game of the Northwest. **$3. Crowell.
7–29864.
The author does not cover the broad field of general ornithology but narrows his scope to include only groups of birds of special interest to sportsmen. These he treats in a manner to be of interest also to the professional ornithologist and to the general reader. Fair sportsmanship is the keynote, discountenancing record-killing slaughter. Hunting yarns and bits of hunters’ wisdom gathered here and there over the gun-barrel mingle with the observations. Nearly ninety birds are described, located and illustrated in full-page half-tones.
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“His descriptions are so good that enjoyment of them need not be confined to sportsmen.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 418. D. 16, ’07. 100w.
“On the whole, he succeeded in making a thoroughly, reliable and entertaining volume.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 760. N. 16, ’07. 410w.
“The illustrations which are diagnostic, add considerably to the value of the volume. Mr. Rich has, however, fallen into the error very general among artists, of placing his ducks too high out of the water. On the more technical side we find recent scientific names given accurately, and the facts concerning life-histories, although of course mainly drawn from the point of view of the hunter, are reliable. As literature, the essays are commendable.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 402. O. 31, ’07. 380w.
“Chatty and humorous as well as informing, and well illustrated.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 358. O. 19, ’07. 90w.
* =Richards, Ellen Henrietta.= Sanitation in daily life. *60c. Whitcomb & B.
7–37734.
A thorogoing manual on sanitation in the home and city based upon the most approved methods of sanitary science.
* =Richards, Mrs. Laura Elizabeth.= Grandmother. †75c. Estes.
7–24770.
“A young girl forced by circumstances into marriage with an old man gave him the loyal gratitude and devotion his kindness merited. She overcame the hatred of his passionate granddaughter of her own age, and became the loved ‘Grandmother’ of all the village children for whom she wove sweet songs and pretty stories. The tragedies of her inner life were never realized by those about her, but they caused her to be a benediction to every one who knew her.”—Outlook.
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“Those who enjoyed ‘Captain January,’ (and that means every one, young or old, that read it) will like Mrs. Richards’s new story, ‘Grandmother.’”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 620. O. 12, ’07. 110w.
“A sweet and touching story.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 745. N. 30, ’07. 120w.
=Richards, Mrs. Laura Elizabeth (Howe).= Silver crown: another book of fables. †$1.25. Little.
6–29779.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Acad.= 71: 608. D. 15, ’06. 20w.
“Useful to parents, teachers, and librarians, but containing little for the children themselves.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 54. F. ’07.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 868. D. 15, ’06. 50w.
=Richards, Ralph Coffin.= Railroad accidents, their cause and prevention. $1. Ralph C. Richards, 215 Jackson boulevard, Chicago.
6–32141.
“A general discussion of various classes of accidents is accompanied by citations of examples showing how the very accidents in question had happened to individuals. References to operating rules—which rules, if followed, would have prevented the accidents in many instances—are freely made throughout the book, and the rules themselves are given in an appendix forming the last 15 pages of the book.”—Engin. N.
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=Engin. N.= 56: 418. O. 18, ’06. 60w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 70w.
=Richards, William R.= Apostles’ creed in modern worship. **$1. Scribner.
6–32847.
“An exposition of the creed rather than a defence of it; and the exposition is spiritual and practical rather than historical and scholarly.”—Outlook.
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“The book may be considered to represent the best that can be said in favor of the adoption of the creed by the non-liturgical communions, though it by no means answers the objections raised against its use in the controversies over it in England and Germany.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 328. O. 18. ’06. 330w.
“It is not and does not purport to be of value to the critical student; it will be of aid in giving rational significance to the creed to those who are accustomed to use it in public worship.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 383. O. 13, ’06. 80w.
=Richardson, Charles.= Chancellorsville campaign: Fredericksburg to Salem church. $1. Neale.
7–17004.
An account of the battles from Fredericksburg to Salem church and a description of the battle field, to which is appended a collection of abstracts from the reports of the operations of the Union army of the Potomac, covering the entire Chancellorsville campaign.
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“Borrows a certain quality of value from the circumstance that it contains in convenient form the text of President Lincoln’s correspondence with the egregious Hooker, together with other official notes of the campaign, and the report of Gen. Lee upon the battle in which Thomas Jonathan Jackson lost his life. Mr. Richardson’s own story of that battle is negligible.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 493. Ag. 10, ’07. 270w.
“Had Colonel Charles Richardson chosen to utilize his personal experience as the basis for his ‘The Chancellorsville campaign,’ he might have made an interesting contribution to civil war literature; but as it is, his narrative is quite negligible. Barring a tedious—and to readers not familiar with the ground—difficult description of the scene of conflict, his account of the operations of Early and Sedgwick about Fredericksburg, displays little originality, and consists for the most part of quotations from official reports strung together in a commonplace way.”
− =Outlook.= 86: 438. Je. 22. ’07. 110w.
=Richardson, Charles.= Tales of a warrior: sanguine but not saguinary for old time people. $1.25. Neale.
7–16755.
Nine simply told tales of the civil war time. Several of them are in southern dialect, and they deal with the county squire, the soldier, the old negro, and other southern types.
=Richardson, Frank.= 2835 Mayfair: a novel. $1.50. Kennerley.
A detective story which has a double identity mystery in it, and one in which the author “takes care to discount the criticism that his story is not credible by making it absolutely impossible.” (Spec.)
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“Regarded as satire or melodrama, ‘2835 Mayfair’ must be considered unsatisfactory. There is, however, plenty of ingenuity in the manner in which Mr. Richardson develops his tale, and his admirers will find no lack of those inconsequent humours which he has taught them to expect.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 459. My. 11, ’07. 270w.
− + =Nation.= 85: 234. S. 12, ’07. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 110w.
“Mr. Richardson’s efforts in what may be called his satirical manner are rather laboured in the present book, which may be best described as a sensational extravaganza and, as our American cousins would say, not very successful at that.”
− =Spec.= 99: 333. S. 7, ’07. 150w.
=Richardson, Leon Josiah.= Helps to the reading of classical Latin poetry. *50c. Ginn.
7–6757.
The book is intended for students of classical Roman poetry, primarily that of Virgil and Ovid. The book outlines the part that reading should play in the field of classical study, compares Latin and English rhythms, and explains simply the nature and structure of Latin verse, with special reference to the dactylic hexameter and the elegiac meter.
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“In all probability it contains rather more than the average student, or perhaps even the exceptional student, if he be an undergraduate, will take the time to read with care. On the other hand, one who is more advanced will scarcely find here anything that is new to him. Some of the illustrative material is ... well selected; and the first twenty pages or so may be read by any one with interest and pleasure.” H. T. P.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 207. Ap. ’07. 360w.
“A helpful little volume for the sympathetic reader of Latin verse.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 387. Ap. 25, ’07. 90w.
=Richardson, Rev. Willard S.=, ed. David: warrior, poet, king. il. $2.50. Appleton.
7–31970.
In this narrative told by means of various passages of scripture, special stress is laid upon the qualities of the man David, the frailties over which the might of character triumphed, the friendship for Jonathan, and the anguish and grief over Absalom. The character development is traced thru the experience of exile, thru the early years of opposition to his rule over the two tribes, and thru the years of prosperity and adversity as king over Israel.
=Rickaby, Rev. Joseph, S. J.= Free will and four English philosophers; a study of Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Mill. *$1.25. Benziger.
“Father Rickaby believes that, though men are slow to see and loth to own it, free will still remains the hub and centre of philosophical speculation. The four philosophers whose views are here criticized are Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Mill. His method is to quote a passage from these authors and then discuss it.”—Ath.
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=Ath.= 1907, 1: 406. Ap. 6. 330w.
“A long matured volume abounding with acute criticism and close reasoning. The most original feature of Father Rickaby’s treatment of the question is his theory on the working of free-will.”
+ + =Cath. World.= 84: 564. Ja. ’07. 330w.
“A vigorous and interesting book.” St. George Stock.
+ − =Hibbert J.= 5: 704. Ap. ’07. 1330w.
=Rickert, (Martha) Edith.= Golden hawk. †$1.50. Baker.
7–15544.
“A modern romance in the picaresque style, steeped in the sunshine of Provence.... Trillon, the hero, has a lordly disdain for commercialism.... We meet him ... fascinating the daughter of the inn-keeper by his audacious flattery, and after a courtship conducted with lightning rapidity in the teeth of every sort of opposition, going off to seek his fortune, while his betrothed is left to the untender mercies of her parents and the priest.... She enters a nunnery. But the irrepressible Trillon returns from the sea, abducts his betrothed ... sets himself to perform a labour of Hercules imposed by the priest as the condition of his consent to the marriage,—the conversion of a rocky wilderness known as the Pit of Artaban into a farm. Trillon’s exploits as a farmer ... make a most entertaining recital; and the final scene, in which he plays the part of a Provençal Lochinvar, brings a fantastic story to an appropriate close.”—Spec.
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“The only fault we have to find in her work is that it needs pruning.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 216. Mr. 2, ’07. 230w.
“The sort of thing that could easily be turned into operetta.” Harry James Smith.
+ =Atlan.= 100: 134. Jl. ’07. 330w.
“It is not a book to be judged by ordinary standards; it must be read indulgently, sympathetically, softly laughed over for the sake of its fantastic humor, its unexpected mingling of sunshine and of shadow.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 392. Je. ’07. 300w.
“A pretty story, full of surprises for even the seasoned reader of summer fiction.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 43. Jl. 4, ’07. 210w.
“Her portraits with all their charm seem sometimes a little stiff, sometimes over flamboyant But there are fine, airy landscapes in plenty; the action is spirited throughout; and few of the incidents fail of the graces of pathos, humour, enthusiasm, and, above all, imagination.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 70. Mr. 1, ’07. 580w.
“She escapes the danger of letting her picaresque hero seem hackneyed and mediocre, by tracing his mental processes from within out, here and there giving a genuine touch of character study, instead of relying entirely upon description of his fantastic dress and twinkling hawk-like eyes.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 435. My. 9, ’07. 350w.
“Miss Rickart has undeniable talent, a grace of style, a keen sense of verbal felicity and skill in reproducing a superficial effect. She has not yet learned the lesson that to be a real artist one must not go too far afield from one’s own life and temperament.” Florence Wilkinson.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 314. My. 18, ’07. 690w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 230w.
“The tale is told with dash and spirit, and has unity of conception. There is buoyancy and there is color, and the reader’s interest is swept along impetuously from beginning to end.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 255. Je. 1, ’07. 210w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 765. Je. ’07. 60w.
“The ‘bravura’ style is at times somewhat forced.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 541. Ap. ’07. 640w.
=Rickett, Arthur.= Vagabond in literature. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–35194.
A volume “made up of ‘papers’ on Hazlitt, De Quincey, Walt Whitman. Robert Louis Stevenson, George Borrow, Henry Thoreau, and Richard Jefferies.”—N. Y. Times.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 104. Ap. ’07.
“These agreeable essays are not epoch-making—how few books are!—but they offer many a page of good reading, none the worse for being on well-worn themes.”
− + =Dial.= 42: 146. Mr. 1, ’07. 330w.
=Ind.= 62: 973. Ap. 25, ’07. 630w.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 789. D. 1, ’06. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 256. F. ’07. 40w.
=Ricketts, Charles S.= Art of the Prado: a survey of the contents of the gallery, together with detailed criticisms of its masterpieces and biographical sketches of the famous painters who produced them. *$2. Page.
7–30412.
A finely illustrated volume which deals with the paintings of the Prado—Madrid’s famous treasure house of masterpieces. Here are found at their best the gold of Titian, the silver of Velasquez. the glow of Rubens and the magic and awe associated with Rembrandt. In what manner and to what extent these pictures are an unchallenged “congress of masterpieces” the author essays to enlighten the reader.
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“He understands how to give his criticism a turn which is at once illuminating and suggestive.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 379. D. 1, ’07. 310w.
“This is a real book, containing real opinions, which may be read with profit and pleasure by any one who cares for the serious study of art.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 550. D. 12, ’07. 290w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“At best the book is an excellent and readable guide to a collection not too widely known, and considered as such the author is deserving of unqualified attention.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 835. D. 14, ’07. 310w.
=Outlook.= 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 80w.
=Rideal, Samuel.= Sewage and the bacterial purification of sewage. $4. Wiley.
A third and enlarged edition of a work which “consists chiefly of a statement of the problem of sewage treatment and of the principles involved and methods employed in the solution of that problem, together with a review of some of the large number of experiments on sewage.... It covers some events and literature well into 1906.”—Engin. N.
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“By means of the present revision, Dr. Rideal’s book becomes the most up-to-date and the best general work on sewage treatment now available.”
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 667. Je. 13, ’07. 340w.
“It seems to be generally acknowledged among sanitary engineers that this work is the most comprehensive treatise on the subject in the English language, and the appearance of a third edition recently is only natural in view of the high standing which the book has won.”
+ + =Technical Literature.= 2: 333. O. ’07. 370w. (Reprinted from Engin. Rec.)
* =Rideout, Henry Milner.= Admiral’s light. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–36092.
The shores of New Brunswick and Maine furnish the setting of a story in which are brought together a girl reared by Yankee gypsies, a lad, hungry for things of life, the recluse grandfather who keeps a lighthouse, an Italian sailor, and a Chinaman whose portion of the tale is one of mystery. The sea-change of the heroine into something rich and strange which breathes sacrifice is the absorbing part of the story.
=Rideout, Henry Milner.= Beached keels. †$1.50. Houghton.
6–38551.
Three stories of the sea and shorefolk. The first is a “strange tale of curious people in an unusual setting; the second, a tragic, pathetic tale of two brothers; the third, humorous.” (A. L. A. Bkl.)
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“All are striking, and more than usually well told.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 18. Ja. ’07. ✠
“Mr. Rideout’s construction is faulty; his stories short as they are, seem to ramble needlessly. But he has the gift of vividness and a rare sense of the value of little things; he can paint the crest of a wave or a trait of character with an admirable terseness.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 24: 691. F. ’07. 330w.
“His fancy is fertile and it imagines large canvases. He almost fills them, but not quite. It is in dealing with the emotions of his characters in the powerful situations in which he places them that Mr. Rideout still falls short: he leaves a little too much to the collaboration of the reader.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 915. Ap. 18, ’07. 260w.
“‘Wild justice’ stands out with almost startling distinctness against the pale mediocrity of current magazine fiction.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 190w.
“All of these three tales, but more especially the first have quite unusual vigor and originality. The author’s chief fault is a somewhat abrupt manner.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84. 1080. D. 29, ’06. 120w.
=Rideout, Henry Milner.= Siamese cat; il. by Will Grefe. †$1.25. McClure.
7–15114.
A love story in which a Siamese cat and a pigeon-blood ruby figure largely. It “swings along at a high speed and there is plenty of Asiatic coast atmosphere, of the semi-tourist, semi-native sort. The local color, appears veracious with its mixture of bad smells and pink mists and ruined temples and calm homicides and pigin English and poisonings and stabbings while you wait.” (N. Y. Times.)
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“The setting is oriental, and adds not a little to the attractions of a light, swift-moving ingenious, and altogether entertaining tale.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 180. O. ’07. ✠
“This is a book which tempts the reviewer to cast propriety to the winds and call it in cold print a thundering good story.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 544. Je. 13, ’07. 380w.
“It is a merry tale, for all its trifling with human life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 360. Je. 4, ’07. 280w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.
=Riedl, Frigyes.= History of Hungarian literature. *$1.75. Appleton.
7–2035.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1996.
+ =Acad.= 71: 652. D. 29, ’06. 940w.
“This book with Dr. Reich’s ‘Historical survey of Hungarian literature’ covers the subject comprehensively.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 127. My. ’07.
“An extremely readable volume, exhibiting scholarship without pedantry, and resisting the temptation to dwell at too great length upon the formative period of the literature.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 115. E. 16, ’07. 320w.
“This is a remarkable book, as it is the first history of Hungarian literature in the English language.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 635. S. 12, ’07. 710w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 386. Ap. 25, ’07. 330w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 402. Mr. 30, ’07. 300w.
=Riemer, J.= Shaft-sinking in difficult cases; tr. from the Germ. by J. W. Brough. *$3.50. Lippincott.
“The volume is confined to a description of means that have to be resorted to when ordinary methods of sinking cannot be applied on account of excessive influx of water, the means described being shaft sinking by hand, boring shafts, the freezing method of sinking, and the sinking-drum method.” (Nature.) “The book is divided into four main sections, devoted respectively to (1) Shaft sinking by hand, (2) Shaft sinking by boring, (3) The freezing method, and (4) The sinking drum process. Concrete examples are given of the application of each method. The folding plates in the back of the book amply illustrate the constructive details involved.” (Engin. N.)
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=Engin. N.= 58. 178. Ag. 15, ’07. 180w.
“It is not a book for elementary students, but one that deserves the careful study of advanced students and of experienced engineers. The translation has been carefully made.”
+ + =Nature.= 76: 291. Jl. 25, ’07. 380w.
=Ries, Heinrich.= Clays, their occurrence, properties, and uses, with especial reference to those of the United States. *$5. Wiley.
6–37212.
“The author treats his subject under the following heads:—The origin of clay, chemical properties, physical properties, kinds of clay, methods of mining and manufacture, distribution of clay in the United States, Fuller’s earth.”—Nature.
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“The only work summarizing the scattered literature on American clays.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 171. O. ’07.
“Notwithstanding defects in matter and manner, Dr. Ries has rendered a distinct service to ceramics in producing this work. It more nearly meets the general need than any other English book in the field, and will doubtless awaken in many aspiring minds an enthusiasm to know more than the book pretends to tell, and will thus lead to research and scholarship, which has so far groped in vain for lack of a guide.” Edward Orton, jr.
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 437. Ap. 18, ’07. 1380w.
=J. Geol.= 14: 459. Ag. ’06. 230w.
“This book is very well produced and free from slips.”
+ =Nature.= 75: 411. Mr. 14, ’07. 460w.
“The most comprehensive and evenly balanced, if not the only, presentation of the subject as a whole that we have.” Eugene A. Smith.
+ + =Science=, n. s. 25: 999. Je. 28, ’07. 1370w.
=Riley, James Whitcomb.= Morning. $1.25. Bobbs.
7–26127.
The keynote of this latest group of Riley poems is struck in the following:
“Let us see as we have seen— Where all paths are dewy-green, And all human-kind are kin— Let us be as we have been.”
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“It is doubtful if his admirers will find in it quite the charm of his earlier work.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 363. D. ’07. 200w.
=Riley, James Whitcomb.= While the heart beats young. $2.50. Bobbs.
6–36414.
Under this title are included “all the best of Mr. Riley’s child-verses, with many pictures in color by Ethel Franklin Betts.”—Dial.
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+ − =Dial.= 41: 398. D. 1, ’06. 130w.
“Riley still makes the same heart-felt appeal to the people that he did more than a quarter of a century ago.”
+ =Ind.= 61: 1402. D. 13, ’06. 90w.
=Ripley, William Z.= Railway problems: a collection of reprints with maps and introd. $2.25. Ginn.
7–6187.
Uniform with “Selections and documents in economics.” While the book is primarily intended to serve as a college text in the economics of transportation, it also aims to offer in convenient form for the general reader and student of American public questions authoritative information upon this important economic and political question.
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“Of use to the interested public, the student, the college instructor, and the debator.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 127. My. ’07. S.
“Is by far the best compendium of papers on railway transportation that has yet been made.” Emory R. Johnson.
+ + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 30: 616. N. ’07. 460w.
“The book is invaluable for college work, and to all who would take up the history of American railways.” Ralph Albertson.
+ =Arena.= 38: 219. Ag. ’07. 330w.
“We can very heartily commend this book to anyone desiring to make a study of the economic relations of the railways to the public.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 77. Jl. 18, ’07. 520w.
“Professor Ripley makes it easy for the student to get a view of the more important of our railway problems.” William Hill.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 435. Jl. ’07. 320w.
“One of the great advantages of the material presented in this volume for pedagogical purposes is that it deals so largely with debatable questions. With its aid there should be no difficulty in making college courses on railway problems interesting as well as profitable.”
+ =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 559. S. ’07. 210w.
“Has been edited with great care. The book fully meets the aim of the editor and is all that can be desired.” Albert I. Frye.
+ + =Technical Literature.= 1: 269. Je. ’07. 1050w.
=Ristori, Adelaide.= Memoirs and artistic studies of Adelaide Ristori; rendered into English by G. Mantellini. **$2.50. Doubleday.
7–26130.
“Besides the biographical matter furnished by Signor Ventura, the present book of memoirs consists of two parts: in the first, Madame Ristori gives her reminiscences of her stage career, commencing with her first appearance before the footlights at the age of two months, and extending over sixty-three years to her farewell performance, which was given twenty-two years ago at the New York Academy of music in a memorable production of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth,’ Edwin Booth taking the title-role on that occasion. The second part of her Memoirs is devoted to an analysis of six of the principal parts in her répertoire: Schiller’s ‘Mary Stuart,’ Giacometti’s ‘Queen Elizabeth,’ Shakespeare’s ‘Lady Macbeth,’ Legouve’s ‘Medea,’ Alfieri’s ‘Myrrha,’ and Racine’s ‘Phaedra.’”—Lit. D.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3:171. O. ’07. S.
“To the already published lives of Adelaide Ristori this new edition of her memoirs, with its appended letters coming down nearly to the date of her death, is a useful supplement. But there is still room for a final, full, and critical account of the remarkable actress, prepared with far more care than the volume under review.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 160. S. 16, ’07. 1770w.
“Her autobiography has not literary quality, and it is marred in the translation by a faulty English that editing might, it would seem, easily have bettered.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1003. O. 24. ’07. 210w.
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 452. S. 28, ’07. 1200w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
“Not only is the arrangement of the matter slovenly ... but the English translation supplied by Signor G. Mantellini reflects but little credit upon the original composition.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 239. S. 12, ’07. 1000w.
“The work of the translator is utterly inadequate. His mistakes, due to a very evident lack of familiarity with the conventions and idioms of the English language, are sometimes ludicrous, sometimes annoying, sometimes obscuring; and many of them would never have passed even a moderately good proof-reader, who was compelled to wade through the ridiculous pi of commas strewn thicker than Vallombrosan leaves.” Anne Peacock.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 537. S. 7, ’07. 1400w.
“The story of her life is here told in a simple and informal way, without boasting, but with intelligent appreciation of men and things.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 132. S. 21, ’07. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 512. O. ’07. 130w.
=Ritchie, Rev. Arthur.= Spiritual studies in St. Luke’s gospel. 2v. *$5. Young ch.
6–39459.
“The general character of these volumes is homiletical. and their aim is to feed the altar flame of the consecrated heart.” (Outlook.) “Dr. Ritchie has arranged his commentary in short sections, and divided each study into an exposition and a series of three ‘thoughts,’ thus adapting his work to quick reference and ready comprehension.” (Nation.)
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+ =Nation.= 83: 370. N. 1, ’06. 170w.
=Outlook.= 84: 633. N. 10, ’06. 120w.
=Rivers, W. H. R.= Todas; with il., map and chronological tables. *$6.50. Macmillan.
7–18149.
The author says that his book is not merely a record of the customs and beliefs of a people who amount to fewer than a thousand individuals all told, but is also a demonstration of anthropological method. These people occupy the well-watered plateau of the Nilgiri hills in Southern India, and their life, character, customs, ceremonials and factors upon which their social organization rests are informingly discussed.
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“A work as laborious as it is original.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 551. N. 3. 1350w.
“An exhaustive study.”
+ =Dial.= 42: 317. My. 16, ’07. 360w.
“As an example of scientific method, this is the best socio-religious monograph of a special community yet published.” A. C. Haddon.
+ + =Hibbert J.= 5: 680. Ap. ’07. 1560w.
+ + =Lond. Times.= 5: 406. D. 7, ’06. 960w.
“An admirable study of savage life.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 180w.
“Thanks to Dr. Rivers’s energy and care we have a complete and scientific account of one of the most significant phenomena in the history of that varied organism, religion. A monument of industry and care, not without insight, and the results of comparative study, and is an invaluable record of which Cambridge and the new anthropology may be proud.” A. E. Crawley.
+ + =Nature.= 75: 462. Mr. 14, ’07. 960w.
“Mr. Rivers’ careful monograph will thus win and retain a central place, that between the preliminary and more or less amateurish anthropological observers whose works he practically supersedes, and the deeper interpretation for which he does so much to prepare.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 113. Ja. 26, ’07. 1380w.
“Mr. Rivers’s learned book will remain the chief authority on the interesting race with which he deals.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: sup. 120. Ja. 26, ’07. 300w.
=Rives, Hallie Erminie.= Satan Sanderson. †$1.50. Bobbs.
7–26018.
Plot and action abound in this story of confused identity. In his college days, only four years past, the Reverend Harry Sanderson was known to his fellows as Satan Sanderson. There crosses his path one day an old associate, Hugh Stires, the degenerate son of St. James’ richest parishioner, and so closely resembling Sanderson as to cause all the trouble that ensues. The ghosts of the past appear, but are downed by the invincible might of the young rector. The degenerate weds the woman Sanderson loves, proves unworthy of her, and throws himself upon Sanderson’s mercy, and the latter in attempting to save him meets with an accident that robs him of his memory. The climax and the fall grow out of the confusion of identity that follows, and a ne’er-do-well’s one impulse of manhood.
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“The thrills follow thick and fast as in melodrama by Theodore Kremer. They follow in good sharp English, moreover, with only occasional tiptoe reaches into preciosity.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 35: 656. N. 2, ’07. 590w.
“Miss Rives writes well, though without much restraint upon her native luxuriance of expression, and with none whatever upon her imagination.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 960w.
=Rix, Herbert.= Tent and Testament; a camping tour in Palestine with some notes on Scripture sites. *$2.50. Scribner.
7–15906.
“This record of a camping tour in Palestine is from the hand of a scholarly and critical traveler.... Throughout a route which lay in part aside from the common track of tourists his interest in verifying Biblical sites and Biblical allusions fully justifies the title of his record.... The prolonged discussions required by controverted questions as to Nazareth, Bethlehem, Capernaum, and other localities are set off into appendices ... and the whole is indexed and illustrated.”—Outlook.
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“A thoughtful, well-written, even learned work, far from the vain outpouring of the tourist. The narrative, though heavily charged with information, is wonderfully unembarrassed: and the word-pictures which abound are true to life.... We are sorry that Mr. Rix should have left so much perishable matter [Protestant theories with regard to holy places] in a work which has permanent interest.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 351. Mr. 23. 150w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 1474. Je. 20, ’07. 70w.
“The narrative is sufficiently enlivened with incident and anecdote to give it continuous interest.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 282. F. 2, ’07. 110w.
“His narrative of travel is that of an intelligent and well-informed traveller who went without prepossessions and was both able and willing to weigh evidence. His observations were careful. Now and then he is able to correct even so great an authority in Palestinian topography as Dr. George Smith.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 94. Ja. 19, ’07. 300w.
=Roach, Abby Meguire.= Some successful marriages. †$1.25. Harper.
6–37923.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The author is evidently a close observer of human nature and a clever analyst.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 352. Mr. 22. 180w.
=Roberts, Charles George Douglas.= Haunters of the silences. $2. Page.
7–18302.
In the course of these eighteen short stories of the wild, Mr. Roberts not only introduces us to types of animal life in the earth’s silent places but takes us down into the depths of the sea to meet the orca, the shark, the narwhal, and the ocean cuttlefish.
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“The book is very well worth buying and keeping for the illustrations alone, and again it is well worth buying and keeping even had it no illustrations. It will be a world dull of appreciation which does not recognize great qualities in this volume.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 106. N. 9. ’07. 620w.
“Charming stories of creatures of the air, the deep sea, of the northern forests and silent wastes.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 180. O. ’07. ✠
“The book is full of good reading, and it is well written.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 587. N. 9. 270w.
“It has remained for Mr. Roberts to crystallise into a series of brief and vibrant character-studies the really salient features of the horizonless life of the outer worlds.” Thomas Walsh.
+ + =Bookm.= 25: 305. My. ’07. 270w.
“For this large-minded fairness, as well as for other reasons, the book belongs to the small but fortunately growing class of the best nature story-books.” May Estelle Cook.
+ + =Dial.= 42: 369. Je. 16. ’07. 840w.
“The stories are said to be in a line with accurate natural history. However, it is not concerning questions of observed facts so much as the interpretations that scientific men will have a quarrel with the author of this and with those of similar books.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1001. O. 24, ’07. 350w.
“It is the most ambitious work of the kind that Mr. Roberts has yet written, and deserves to be placed in the first rank of nature books.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 962. Je. 15, ’07. 400w.
+ =Nation.= 84: 591. Je. 27, ’07. 300w.
“Of these nature writers, as they have come to be called, Mr. C. G. D. Roberts ... is far the most charming, the most literary, the most interesting. As for the illustrations by Mr. Bull, they merit an article in themselves. It is difficult to see how they could be more full both of imagination and accuracy.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 361. Je. 8, ’07. 1610w.
“He writes of his subjects with sympathy and imagination, while his descriptions of their ways and hunts are scientifically exact.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 130w.
“He talks about wild life from the standpoint of a man who knows it well and is also a writer of refinement and of literary instinct.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 478. Je. 29, ’07. 100w.
=Roberts, Charles George Douglas.= Heart that knows. $1.50. Page.
6–30929.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Current Literature.= 42: 110. Ja. ’07. 440w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 128. Ja. ’07. 40w.
=Roberts, Charles George Douglas.= In the deep of the snow; il. by Denman Fink. †50c. Crowell.
7–21228.
A short Christmas story of the northern frontier in which a stout-hearted father takes a long snow-shoe journey to bring Santa Claus to his wilderness cabin.
=Roberts, George Simon.= Historic towns of the Connecticut river valley. Il. *$3.50. Robson & Adee, Schenectady, N. Y.
6–24568.
“The history of each town is given, some anecdotes of some of its distinguished sons and their careers told, old houses are described, landmarks pointed out, and places of historical interest shown. Pictures, too, are given of houses, sites of buildings, etc., and there are portraits, views of the town, etc.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The towns are taken up one by one, in an order extending from the mouth of the river northward. There is, however, little other order; repetitions are frequent, and in the selection of information to be included or excluded no clear purpose appears beyond that of furnishing entertaining reading matter.”
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 12: 434. Ja. ’07. 60w.
“He writes pleasantly, but he has not written a chronicle, for he has written loosely. Names are spelled wrongly, dates are awry, and now and again some statement amazes those familiar with the old towns.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 100. Ja. 10, ’07. 240w.
“Its wealth consists mostly in the assembling of anecdotes, and of certain of the vital historical facts appertaining to each of the towns. A more analytic index would have greatly relieved the congestion of the text, and served to reveal its riches.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 331. O. 18, ’06. 440w.
“The volume is entertaining and authoritative.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 515. Ag. 18, ’06. 380w.
=Roberts, Margaret.= Saint Catherine of Siena and her times; by the author of “Mademoiselle Mori.” *$2.75. Putnam.
7–10561.
“St. Catherine, surnamed Benincasa, was born in the year 1348 when Siena lay in the grip of the black death, the daughter of a well-to-do citizen, a dyer by trade. She grew to be the peacemaker of Italy and the revered friend of popes and princes. The present narrative of her life, without being remarkable in any special way, gives a measurably adequate picture, as biographical pictures go, of this remarkable woman.”—N. Y. Times.
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“We have already devoted a considerable amount of space to this inaccurate book only because it is about the worst specimen of its class which we have seen.”
− − − =Acad.= 72: 32. Ja. 12, ’07. 1900w.
“An excellent life of Saint Catherine written in a tone as far removed from blind enthusiasm as from faint-hearted apology.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 178. Ag. 17. 890w.
“Her pages present no evidence of her right to undertake the serious task in question; rather they give us reason to think that neither the faculty of clearly and logically presenting facts, nor the power of sympathetically appreciating Catherine Benincasa, has been granted to the saint’s latest biographer.”
− =Cath. World.= 86: 254. N. ’07. 100w.
“Miss Roberts ... brings a large store of knowledge and no small literary skill to her congenial task.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1416. Je. 13, ’07. 160w.
“The way in which this new ‘Life’ of her absorbs one, seeming to transmit her force and charm, is the best proof of the author’s excellence. It would, indeed, be hard to find an historical biography better done.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 65. Mr. 1, ’07. 630w.
“Readable, vivacious life. References to volume and page of the works quoted are rarely given and, on the whole, one is forced to the conclusion that the historian’s well-documented life of St. Catherine is yet to be published. Throughout the book there are evidences of careless proof-reading.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 224. Mr. 7, ’07. 800w.
“The book, in short, is more interesting than informing. It fails to leave a distinct impression of St. Catherine.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 10. Ja. 5, ’07. 400w.
+ − =Outlook.= 85: 527. Mr. 2, ’07. 120w.
Reviewed by A. I. du Pont Coleman.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 1: 629. F. ’07. 630w.
“For one reason or another, perhaps because of some rather lengthy sentences, the present book has not quite the romantic—one might almost say the dashing—interest of others on the subject. Still, the book given to us by the well-known and accomplished author of ‘Mademoiselle Mori’ has very great merits of its own, and it will be read with interest by all who love the Italy of the fourteenth century.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 121. Ja. 26, ’07. 230w.
=Roberts, Morley.= Flying Cloud: a story of the sea. $1.50. Page.
7–15115.
Young Jack, the greenhorn, at the opening of this tale leaves his school and his angry uncle and embarks upon the Flying Cloud to seek his fortune in Australia. But neither school nor uncle could have given him the training he received from the brown men of the crew, the two brave mates, the old Malay bo’s’n, and the captain, the victim of opium. It is a thrilling tale, the story of how Jack learned the ways of the sea and the seamen.
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“We advise Mr. Roberts to let the sea alone for a while; he will only anger her by his florid compliments, and she has already a superfluity of verbose admirers. He can do better than this, and he might do excellent work if he were content to think a little more and write a great deal less.”
− =Acad.= 72: 394. Ap. 20, ’07. 260w.
“As story pure and simple has faults. When warmed to his work, he throws aside all that is pretentious and mannered, sloughs his colloquialism as a writer, and deals in sound, moving, graphic English.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907. 1: 535. My. 4. 180w.
“If the reader can once get over the rhapsodical opening chapters of this very good tale of the sea, he is probably in no danger of abandoning the gallant Flying Cloud.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 37. Jl. 11, ’07. 150w.
“This new marine tale by Mr. Morley Roberts has the tang of authentic brine and the swift pulse of life in it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 690w.
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 593. My. 11, ’07. 200w.
=Roberts, Morley.= Painted Rock, tales and narratives of Painted Rock, South Panhandle, Texas, told by Charlie Baker, late of that city and also of Snyder, Scurry county. †$1.50. Lippincott.
A collection of ten short stories dealing with the citizens of Painted Rock, their “histories and their affairs.” There is a good deal of bloodthirsty revenge portrayed, and life seems to be cheap. The realism and its primitive setting will no doubt prove fascinating to people who look for the kernel of humanity amongst the waste of savagery.
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“Mr. Roberts’s intimate knowledge of Texas and its people enables him to reproduce both the atmosphere and the personalities of that strange country.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 296. Mr. 23, ’07. 290w.
“This sort of record will ... always be interesting to English readers.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 1: 351. Mr. 23. 280w.
“Mr. Roberts seems to have caught most admirably the spirit of the southwest, its ethics, its code of manners, and, best of all, its inimitable breeziness of speech.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 602. Ag. ’07. 670w.
“The stories (of the familiar Alfred Henry Lewis stuff) in the present volume seem hardly up to Mr. Roberts’s mark.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 393. Je. 15, ’07. 430w.
=Roberts, Theodore.= Red feathers. $1.50. Page.
7–26602.
A story of the Island of Newfoundland before it had a name, of the days when chiefs and their warriors made prayers to the sun, the winds, the frost and the stars, when magicians were abroad in the land, evil as well as good ones, practicing their witchery to terrorize or to bless their tribes.
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“Mr. Roberts who has much real knowledge of Indian lore, tells his story in a delightful way that will please both little people and adults.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 90w.
=Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 90w.
* =Roberts, William.= Sir William Beechey. (Library of art.) *$2. Scribner.
W 7–140.
The honesty of the work of Beechey is emphasized in this study. “The task of tracing out the identity of Beechey’s sitters, which included most of the celebrities of his time has been pursued by Mr. Roberts with most patient industry and he has unearthed a mass of information of great value to future biographers. He sifts out carefully different versions of the same period of the artist’s life, and gives the evidence in their favour without insisting on the acceptance of one or the other.” (Acad.)
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“The book was well worth publishing for its information not only about Beechey but about many of his distinguished contemporaries.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 602. Je. 22, ’07. 220w.
“This expanded catalog of the work of that rather commonplace portraitist is both commonplace and dull.”
− =Ind.= 63: 1176. N. 14, ’07. 120w.
“Mr. Roberts’s monograph is expository rather than critical, and particular interest attaches to the chapter of forty pages in which he gives a series of extracts from Beechey’s account books.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 85. Jl. ’07. 140w.
=Robertson, Alexander.= Discourses on the history, art and customs of Venice. *$3. Scribner.
A group of discourses which contain interesting information as to the religion of the early Venetians. The volume “is remarkable for two things—its seventy-three half tones reproduced from some of the most attractive photographs that we have yet seen of modern Venice and the attempt of the author to read into Venetian monuments Presbyterian texts as to their inspiration, building, and perpetuation.” (N. Y. Times.)
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+ − =Nation.= 84: 565. Je. 20, ’07. 130w.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 294. My. 1, ’07. 520w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 524. Jl. 6, ’07. 120w.
* =Robertson, Archibald Thomas.= Epochs in the life of Jesus: a study of development and struggle in the Messiah’s work. **$1. Scribner.
7–35611.
“These lectures, delivered at a Missouri summer assembly in 1906, present in popular form the main facts of Jesus’ life. The writer seeks to give ‘a straight-forward constructive discussion of the career of Jesus as set forth in the Gospels’ putting the emphasis upon the pivotal points in the movement of Jesus’ ministry, and avoiding critical discussion.”—Bib. World.
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“The point of view is conservative.”
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 60w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=Robertson, James Peter.= Personal adventures and anecdotes of an old officer. **$3.50. Longmans.
An octogenarian’s reminiscences of deathdealing adventures. In spite of the fact that his mother predicted early death unless he reformed, Colonel Robertson is hale and hearty at the age of eighty-four. “The volume is full of good stories, telling anecdotes, gallant exploits and hair-breadth adventures, related in a manner which at once fascinates and compels admiration for the old officer and his comrades. Like Sir Evelyn Wood, Sir John French, and Sir Henry Hildyard, Colonel Robertson was a middy before he took to soldiering, and a love for the sea and life afloat bore fruit in many stirring episodes in his subsequent career, while to the credit of the seaman’s instinct thus early imparted may be placed that readiness of resource so frequently exhibited during the vicissitudes of his military life.”—Acad.
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“Our readers will find it as exciting as any adventure story, and described with a naturalness and simplicity as delightful as they are unusual.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 36. Ja. 12, ’07. 1730w.
“An eminently readable and entertaining book.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 287. Mr. 9. 560w.
“The startling exploits with which the book is packed ... make the ordinary sensational novel seem tame in comparison.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 548. Ap. 6, ’07. 450w.
“Something exciting, of one sort or another, happens in nearly every paragraph. And it is all told with a naive sort of charm, in blunt, simple, and straightforward statement, with no more attempt at literary embellishment than you would find in a Quartermaster’s report. And the narrative gains much in interest and dignity by this soldierly simplicity in the telling of it.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 145. Mr. 9, ’07. 540w.
“Colonel Robertson writes with energy and natural force, and his anecdotes are lively as his adventures.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 22. Ja. 5, ’07. 80w.
“Colonel Robertson leaves us with a most agreeable impression of soldierly qualities.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 24. Ja. 5, ’07. 380w.
=Robertson, John Mackinnon.= Short history of free thought, ancient and modern. 2d ed. 2v. *$6. Putnam.
W 7–14.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“On the whole this is an excellent book, and yet it has one characteristic—for the author perhaps, an unavoidable one—that may limit its usefulness. It is written with a purpose additional to the scientific recording and explaining of facts, namely, to spread free-thought as above defined.” Carveth Read.
+ + − =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 513. Jl. ’07. 1480w.
“He writes in narrative style and enlivens his thesis with humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 139. Mr. 3, ’06. 90w.
“It is desirable to caution the unwary reader against accepting too confidingly his conclusions; but the skill with which he marshals the luminous points in a difficult subject is worthy of all praise.” Edward Fuller.
+ + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 127. Ap. ’07. 1200w.
=Robertson, Louis Alexander.= Through painted panes, and other poems. *$1.50. Robertson.
7–16926.
Consists chiefly of poems reprinted from earlier volumes, the plates of which were lost at the time of the San Francisco destruction. “Resurgam,” a new poem of the collection, grew out of the earthquakes ravages, and contains a prophecy for the rearing of earth’s fairest city where the old one stood.
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=Dial.= 43: 94. Ag. 16, ’07. 130w.
=Robins, Elizabeth (C. E. Raimond, pseud.).= The convert. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–35623.
“The convert” is not merely a novel, it is a strong plea for woman’s suffrage. The work of the suffragettes of London with their open air meetings in squares and on wharfs crowded with rude and unsympathetic mobs is glaringly described until the heroine, if not the reader, is drawn over to them and their cause. The heroine, now a splendid woman moving in society’s inner circle, was, when a young girl, deceived by the man she loved and led to sacrifice the child which was to have been hers. Now, with this burning loss in her heart and the cause of down trodden woman strong in her soul, she meets the man once more and, closing the past forever, gives him to the girl he now loves but asks in return his help in the cause, that by helping other women he may expiate his guilt toward one.
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“Extremely clever and well written.”
+ =Acad.= 73: sup. 113. N. 9, ’07. 320w.
“The play was said to have had its dramatic movements; but the novel is one long welter of talk.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 649. N. 23. 130w.
“A sterling example of the bigger, worthier sort of book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 406. D. ’07. 770w.
=Ind.= 63: 1437. D. 12, ’07. 230w.
“With the fullest admiration for much that is good in ‘The convert,’ we regard it as an opportunity missed, not only by Miss Robins the novelist, but by Miss Robins the advocate of female suffrage.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 317. O. 18, ’07. 660w.
“It is a strong book in many senses of the word. It is difficult, however, to speak of ‘The convert,’ as a novel. The conditions portrayed in the book, however, are British rather than American, and thus in this country ‘The convert’ will make its appeal to the critical judgment more as a work of fiction than as a brilliant and possibly accurate account of a burning political question.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 727. N. 16, ’07. 1300w.
“An interesting book written with skill.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 180w.
“Its weakness as a novel lies in the fact that this girl had such an extraordinary past that she is not a typical figure.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 8. N. 16. ’07. 180w.
“Successful as a story it is not, and it may be doubted whether is makes any serious contribution to the literature of the struggle.”
− =Spec.= 99: 827. N. 23, ’07. 270w.
=Robinson, Charles Mulford.= Modern civic art. **$3. Putnam.
3–13052.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by Lewis E. Palmer.
+ + =Charities.= 17: 509. D. 15, ’06. 1100w.
=Robinson, James Harvey.= Readings in European history. Abridged ed. *$1.50. Ginn.
6–6250.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =Bookm.= 23: 455. Je. ’06. 190w.
=Robinson, William.= English flower garden and home grounds. 10th ed. *$6. Scribner.
A volume of nearly a thousand pages which sets forth the design and arrangement shown by existing examples of gardens in Great Britain and Ireland, followed by a description of the plants, shrubs for the open-air garden and their culture.
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“To those who love to plan their own pleasure-grounds and make their own choice of plants, this is one of the best treatises within reach. It is moreover, written in such a pleasing style that it might even serve to wean from idleness those who now depute to professional gardeners the task of selection and care of plants.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 149. Ag. 15, ’07. 390w.
“Exhaustive, detailed authoritative, and immensely practical, this book is one that has come to be regarded as indispensable to every man having such a piece of work in hand.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 210w.
=Robinson, William.= Garden beautiful: home woods, home landscape. *$4. Scribner.
Agr 7–1170.
A book of good counsel particularly for those who own large estates. The reader is told how to beautify his grounds, and the treatment of both forests and flower gardens is considered in detail. A plant dictionary is appended.
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“The author has a final chapter defending his use of common English names of plants and trees; and here we must differ with him.” Edith Granger.
+ − =Dial.= 42: 367. Je. 16, ’97. 550w.
“This book is most valuable in England, as it is written for that climate, but his careful list of trees with directions where each should be planted, his list of shrubs, and the true love of nature that runs thru the book will make it one that owners of woodlands or large estates will enjoy and find useful in spite of the mustard and pepper with which it is highly seasoned.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 500. F. 28, ’07. 420w.
“Mr. Robinson is an attractive writer, who knows how to put sound advice in a telling form.... The only trouble with his books is the marked tendency to repetition.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 208. F. 28, ’07. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 410. Je. 22, ’07. 160w.
=Outlook.= 86: 119. My. 18, ’07. 40w.
“Undoubtedly the best modern book of reference for flower gardens.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 210. F. 16, ’07. 120w.
“Mr. Robinson’s chapters are full of interesting suggestions about landscape gardening. He can give some practical as well as aesthetic advice, moreover, to owners of woodlands and parks.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 583. N. 9, ’07. 170w.
=Spec.= 99: 714. N. 9, ’07. 580w.
=Robinson, William Henry.= Golden palace of Neverland. il. †$1.50. Dutton.
7–21222.
“Mr. Robinson’s story tells of the transporting of a girl and boy to a fairy island on a magic raft. Numerous exciting adventures befall them there, leading them into the society of gnomes and other interesting beings; also into Mother Goose’s domain, where they encounter well-known friends, such as Tom the piper’s son, Little Jack Horner, etc.”—Outlook.
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“An excellent new fairy story book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 703. N. 2, ’07. 80w.
=Outlook.= 87: 451. O. 26, ’07. 60w.
=Roche, Francis Everard.= Exodus: an epic on liberty. $1.50. Badger, R: G.
6–16205.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Is lacking, in poetic elevation, although it has seriousness and animation.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 75. F. 9, ’07. 90w.
=Rodd, Sir James Rennell.= Princes of Achaia and the chronicles of Morea: a study of Greece in the middle ages. 2v. *$7. Longmans.
7–29135.
What Gibbon would not undertake Sir Rennell Rodd has accomplished, namely to give life and form to the “obscure and various dynasties that rose and fell on the continent or in the isles.” “There is a clear-cut introduction dealing with historical authorities. A readable account of the fourth crusade, including the sack of Constantinople and the partition of the empire, is given as a sort of prologue.... The history from the time of Otho of Brunswick to the Greek restoration is summarized as an epilogue. There are three appendices, the third of which contains helpful genealogical tables; also a map ... and an index.” (Dial.)
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“It may safely be said that the volumes under notice are valuable for the parts relating to the Morea though they show traces of haste elsewhere. If the author could find time to cut the two volumes down to one, omitting such parts as have no immediate connection with his subject and revising the rest, his book would be improved and have a distinctly greater historical value.” Edwin Pears.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 130. O. ’07. 1710w.
“It is a conscientious and critical work. The author does not strain after effects, though he is fully alive to the interest of his subject.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 375. Mr. 30. 960w.
“Our author has spared no effort to reach available sources, or to make his results perfectly clear. The style is simple and direct.” F. B. R. Hellems.
+ =Dial.= 42: 306. My. 16, ’07. 2850w.
“Sir Rennell Rodd possesses almost every qualification for writing the history of Frankish Greece.” W. Miller.
+ + − =Eng. Hist. R.= 22: 570. Jl. ’07. 1060w.
“Though this history of medieval Achaia has certain limitations which the specialist will detect, it is based on sound and large foundations.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 82. Mr. 15, ’07. 1080w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 342. My. 25, ’07. 380w.
“As a narrative his work is not likely to be superseded. Unfortunately the most interesting part of the book comes first.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 103: 334. Mr. 16, ’07. 1910w.
“A coherent narrative such as has not been offered to us before in English, though we do not forget Finlay.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 371. Mr. 9, ’07. 1600w.
+ + =Yale R.= 16: 224. Ag. ’07. 420w.
=Rodocanachi, Emmanuel.= Roman capitol in ancient and modern times. *$1. Dutton.
7–29082.
In which are considered the citadel, the temples, the senatorial palace, the palace of the conservators and the museum. “The first part tells the story from the foundation of the city down to the sixth century. At this time a period of darkness set in. The place was practically forgotten. Then in the eleventh century it emerged again into light. The second part tells the story of the locality as it was in the period of the revival.” (Spec.)
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“It must be admitted that the task of translating the mass of ill-digested material of which the book consists cannot have been otherwise than tiresome, but the shortcomings of the translation make the work in its present form still more tiresome to read.”
− =Acad.= 72: 189. F. 23, ’07. 510w.
“The translation is faithful, but not attractive. We notice a good many misprints. The shortcomings of the book do not seriously interfere with its general interest and usefulness.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 546. My. 4. 500w.
“It is, of course, scholarly and scientific—too much so, perhaps, for the traveler who has neither time nor inclination for a minute examination of the antiquities, buildings and ruins of the famous hill; for such as have, the volume cannot be excelled.”
+ + − =Ind.= 62: 1357. Je. 6, ’07. 90w.
“At first sight the book, with its multitudinous footnotes and wealth of historical erudition, may appear to be more acceptable by the student than by the ordinary reader. For the special kind of reader mentioned as being bodily on the capitol it must be invaluable, being a guide book informed with this peculiar charm, that, although no information is omitted which the pilgrim might be expected to possess already, the style conveys a delicate compliment in being far above the comprehension of the vulgar ignoramus.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 169. Mr. 23, ’07. 1210w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 544. O. 13, ’06. 80w.
=Roe, Fred.= Old oak furniture. **$3. McClurg.
The author says “If any apology is needed for what may be termed old oak worship, I may say that the final aim of art is—or ought to be—beauty, and that the cult of old oak is really only one aspect of the pursuit of beauty.” He discusses English archaic rarities, Gothic styles of medieval time, styles of the renaissance and after, oaken chairs and stools before the renaissance, coffers and chests, cupboards and sideboards, bedsteads and cradles, panelling and filled furniture, furniture with hiding-places, vicissitudes of old furniture, and forgeries in old oak.
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+ =Dial.= 43: 384. D. 1, ’07. 260w.
“Written rather for the inexperienced than the expert, his book will be an excellent aid to the neophyte; but it also contains much new information of value even to the accomplished antiquarian.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 27: 279. Ja. ’06. 130w.
=Rogers, Arthur Kenyon.= Religious conception of the world; an essay in constructive philosophy. **$1.50. Macmillan.
7–5078.
“In the opening lines of his introduction the author tells us that he set out to defend a view of the world which is frankly religious and theistic.... With grace and skill he discusses the eternal problems of philosophy regarding the relation of God and nature, God and man, the purely metaphysical question concerning the nature of God. In plain language he tries to explain the greatest historical mystery, the permission of evil on the part of God. He also dwells at some length on the problems of freedom and immortality.”—Ind.
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“Treats of religion in a logical and constructive manner. Despite the abstract nature of the topics, the author uses simple language, carefully avoiding the technical expressions of the philosophical schools.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 856. Ap. 11, ’07. 820w.
“An acutely and cautiously reasoned work. It is addressed to earnest thinkers, it presumes patient consideration, and may weary those who are disinclined to intellectual exercise.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 622. Mr. 16, ’07. 420w.
“Perhaps the strongest chapters in the book are those devoted to theism proper. A less satisfactory part of the book is that dealing with the foundations and validity of knowledge.” H. W. Wright.
+ + − =Philos. R.= 16: 555. S. ’07. 700w.
=Rogers, Arthur Kenyon.= Student’s history of philosophy. *$2. Macmillan.
7–27624.
A new edition whose revision includes some corrected errors of fact, “a large number of mistakes of judgment,” says the author, “and infelicities of expression.” The exposition itself has also been rewritten, references have been added in connection with quoted passages, and the bibliographies have been brought down to date.
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“Is not in any sense noteworthy and the author’s style is decidedly heavy.”
− =Educ. R.= 34: 535. D. ’07. 70w.
“Next to the comprehensiveness of the treatment and the clearness of the exposition, the most remarkable characteristic of the book is the accuracy of the bibliography.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 398. O. 31, ’07. 390w.
• =Rogers, Gertrude.= Cobwebs. $1. Badger, R. G.
7–26605.
A little book of dainty verse whose silvery texture is enhanced by the sunshine of youth, buoyancy and possibility.
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“A pale distillation of old poetic symbols.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 36. Jl. 11, ’07. 110w.
=Rogers, Robert Cameron.= Rosary and other poems. **$1.25. Lane.
6–32395.
Four classical idyls in blank verse.
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“Are distinctly out of the common. But the talent of Mr. Rogers is for the most part lyrical, and a very charming talent it is.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 41: 205. O. 1, ’06. 390w.
“With all its variety and intelligence, the volume just misses distinction, chiefly, we should guess, because of a certain limitation of sentiment and because the life in it has been strained through too many books.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 440. N. 22, ’07. 210w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 254. F. ’07. 30w.
=Roller, Frank W.= Electric and magnetic measurements and measuring instruments. *$3.50. McGraw pub.
7–6710.
“A summary of the instruments and methods used or proposed for all kinds of measurements of electrical and magnetic quantities.”—Engin. N.
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“It is not a treatise that will be useful to a student, unless accompanied by very careful directions from a competent instructor. The descriptions appear to be accurate and a vast amount of information is rendered accessible.” Henry H. Morris.
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 439. Ap. 18, ’07. 660w.
=Rollins, Frank West.= What can a young man do? **$1.50. Little.
7–32570.
Over fifty possible careers are here sketched for the benefit of the young man with his life work before him. There are chapters upon the professions, various branches of business, politics, consular service, the sailor, the actor, the chauffeur, the farmer and many other ways of earning a living.
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“The book will be read with interest and profit by the heads of families and by their sons who are about to choose their life work.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 711. N. 9. ’07. 170w.
* =Rollins, Montgomery.= Money and investments: a reference book for the use of those desiring information in the handling of money or the investment thereof. *$2. Estes.
7–31980.
“The object of the book is essentially to furnish to the layman information about the simple forms of financial transactions, to explain the slang of the stock market, and to guide him in his investments. The foreword of 36 pages gives a general review of the financial situation with suggestions to investors. The remaining 436 pages are in the form of an encyclopedia, with headings alphabetically arranged.”—Ind.
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“We have received many letters lately from our subscribers asking us to recommend an elementary book of finance. The present volume ... seems to fill the bill.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1437. D. 12, ’07. 270w.
“Is a workmanlike compilation of little financial essays, cast in dictionary form. The book is rather suitable for reference than for counsel in action.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 728. N. 16, ’07. 110w.
=Romanes, Ethel (Mrs. George John Romanes).= Story of Port Royal. *$5. Dutton.
7–28621.
“An attempt to give an account of the remarkable religious movement known as Port-Royal—which ... in the seventeenth century ... touched French life at almost every point.”—Lond. Times.
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“We cannot commend the style of the writing. The sentences are jerky and the paragraphs disjointed. There is a running comment of religious and moral sententiousness which is both irritating and tedious. We have, however, nothing but praise for Mrs. Romanes’s industry and enthusiasm for her subject.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 696. Je. 8. 940w.
“Sainte-Beuve’s great book, ‘Port Royal,’ is, as every one knows, the one supreme work on the subject. No substitute for it exists in English, nor can we honestly say that Mrs. Romanes’s book will occupy that place. It is written in a rambling, inconclusive style, which wanders from subject to subject, from biographical sketches of the principal actors in the story to long theological disquisitions and back again in a way which is most confusing to the reader.”
− + =Lond. Times.= 6: 113. Ap. 12, ’07. 2000w.
“It is to be regretted that Mrs. Romanes did not submit her manuscript to somebody competent to correct her French.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 571. Je. 20, ’07. 550w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 252. Ap. 20, ’07. 140w.
“Perhaps her seemingly unnecessary fullness of detail is essential to give a complete picture, but occasionally one feels that the text might have been condensed. This, however, if it be a blemish, is certainly a minor one. Her volume is to be heartily commended to all students of religious development.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 86: 342. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
“Mrs. Romanes has dealt with it sympathetically, if occasionally her observations are rather English and conventional.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 273. Ag. 31, ’07. 690w.
=Rook, Clarence.= Switzerland, the country and its people; painted by Effie Jardine. *$6. Putnam.
7–26626.
Mr. Rook “gives us neither an arid chronological history nor a descriptive guide-book, but takes up chapter by chapter for broad intelligent treatment such subjects as ‘Swiss patriotism,’ ‘The growth of a republic,’ ‘The Swiss government,’ ‘Popular control,’ ‘Winter sports,’ ‘The Swiss as engineers.’”—Outlook.
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“The artist’s little pictures are very much like what one has been used to in similar books. She is more successful, to our mind, with lowlands and street scenes than with the high Alps, and with summer scenes than with winter. Mr. Rook writes in a cheerful journalistic style, without more regard for accuracy in details than that style tolerates. On the main facts of Swiss history and institutions he is usually correct.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 500. Ap. 27. 1260w.
“We were very much surprised to find Mr. Rook’s part of this book not only readable, but interesting, even informing, tho not burdened with statistics.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 802. Ap. 4, ’07. 260w.
“It is one of the most entertaining and instructive of the season’s books of travel.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 24: 724. My. 4, ’07. 240w.
“About the text there is nothing heavy. In a style which is both easy and graceful, Mr. Rook introduces his reader to the admirable government and fine characteristics of the sturdy Swiss.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 571. Je. 20. ’07. 570w.
“In several well-considered chapters the government of Switzerland is very adequately treated, and there are some suggestive comparisons between Swiss methods of government and those of other nations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 274. Ap. 27, ’07. 310w.
“With very few exceptions these pictures can be cordially praised. Each subject, whether serious or light, is treated in appropriate vein and with evidence of knowledge and discrimination.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 85: 814. Ap. 6, ’07. 150w.
Reviewed by Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 444. Jl. ’07. 400w.
“Mr. Rook is a lively and picturesque writer, and we have never come across a more readable account of the rise and progress of the Swiss confederation.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 434. Ap. 6, ’07. 250w.
“A volume which is bound both to please and to profit.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 337. Mr. 2, ’07. 140w.
=Roosevelt, Theodore.= Good hunting in pursuit of big game in the West. $1. Harper.
7–6650.
These true stories of big-game hunting in the West are written for young people, especially for young hunters. The tales are told wholly from the sportsman’s point of view and over-sympathetic little readers of the modern animal story may not enjoy these triumphant hunts which meant death to: the wapiti or round horned elk, a cattle-killing bear, a Christmas buck, the timber-wolf, the prong-buck, or the white goat. The volume closes with some sound advice upon ranching.
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“It is eminently suited for its purpose, as its tone is sportsmanlike and the descriptions are in well-chosen words.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 575. My. 11. 90w.
“Full of wholesome advice on hunting and ranching.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 1353. Je. 6, ’07. 140w.
“Spirited papers.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 96. F. 16, ’07. 290w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 639. My. ’07. 90w.
=Roosevelt, Theodore.= Square deal. $1. Allendale press.
6–36925.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Ind.= 61: 759. S. 27, ’06. 70w.
=Root, Edward Clary.= Unseen jury: a novel; with il. by Phillipps Ward. †$1.50. Stokes.
7–9546.
The father of a girl with two lovers is found dead in a stream. All evidence points to the guilt of the dissipated lover whose suit had been repeatedly rejected by the father. When conviction seems imminent, the other lover, a lawyer, takes up the defense, wins the case and the free man goes back to the girl only to learn that his rival is her choice.
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“Detective stories involving murder mysteries do not seem likely to offer anything agreeably new. But in this respect a pleasant surprise awaits the reader of ‘The unseen jury.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 286. My. ’07. 440w.
“The theme is an interesting one, and the author has handled his plot fairly well. Mr. Root could also have improved the story not a little by judicious condensation. And the manuscript has been edited with shocking carelessness.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 303. My. 11, ’07. 310w.
=Root, Elihu.= Citizen’s part in government. (Yale lectures on the responsibilities of citizenship.) **$1. Scribner.
7–22700.
“Secretary Root discusses (1) the task inherited or assumed by members of the governing body in a democracy; (2) the function of political parties as agencies of the governing body; (3) the duties of the citizens as a member of a political party; and (4) the grounds for encouragement.”—R. of Rs.
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“It is a vigorous and stimulating book, well worth addition to Bishop Goodsell’s list.” Edward A. Bradley.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 417. Je. 29, ’07. 830w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 226. N. ’07. 310w.
“Mr. Root’s sensible and well-proportioned treatment of these topics is precisely what is needed by the young American who aspires to have a real part in making the political conditions around him better.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 382. S. ’07. 290w.
=Root, Jean Christie (Mrs. J. H. Root).= Does God comfort? by one who has greatly needed to know. **30c. Crowell.
6–18575.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=Arena.= 37: 333. Mr. ’07. 60w.
=Root, Robert Kilburn.= Poetry of Chaucer: a guide to its study and appreciation. **$1.50. Houghton.
6–34823.
The author’s purpose has been “to put his readers in possession of the most recent results of Chaucerian research, which are at present widely scattered in learned periodicals. The scanty facts that have been unearthed about Chaucer’s biography, the chronology of his works, the sources to which he was indebted for his material—for, like Shakespeare and Molière, Chaucer took his own wherever he found it—and the social conditions and surroundings amid which and for which the poet wrote are amply set forth.” (N. Y. Times.)
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 104. Ap. ’07.
“This interesting study avoids both the iridescent foam of clever but shallow appreciation and the dead calm of unanimated learning.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 46. Ja. 16, ’07. 300w.
“Especially to be commended is his conservatism in rejecting the ingenious speculations which have recently aimed at revolutionizing the generally accepted chronology of Chaucer’s poems. Like most books that issue from American universities, it is perhaps too didactic in aim, and the shadow of orthodoxy at times hangs a little heavily over its pages.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 370. N. 1, ’06. 390w.
“It is written with learning and from a sane and sympathetic point of view.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 737. N. 10, ’06. 940w.
=Ropes, James Hardy.= Apostolic age in the light of modern criticism. **$1.50. Scribner.
6–14529.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book is constructive in method, conservative in treatment, clear in style. An excellent supplement to Kent’s ‘Origin and permanent value of the Old Testament.’”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 128. My. ’07.
“The interpretation of the Acts in ... Dr. Ropes’s Apostolic age ... is a living and breathing matter, a real thing, seeking honestly and earnestly for truth, and bringing us the truth thus found with all frank generosity.” George Hodges.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 565. Ap. ’07. 210w.
“The general tendency of the book is distinctly orthodox. It is from such contributions to the subject that real progress may be hoped.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 24. Jl. 7. ’06. 90w.
=Rose, Arthur Richard.= Common sense hell. **$1. Dillingham.
6–6895.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=N. Y. Times.= 11: 196. Mr. 31, ’06. 190w.
* =Rose, Elise Whitlock.= Cathedrals and cloisters of midland France; il. by Vida Hunt Francis. 2v. **$5. Putnam.
“Together the volumes contain four photogravures and two hundred half-tone illustrations picturing the churches of central France, whose architecture is differentiated from that to the north and south by the dominance of the Byzantine influence. Miss Rose has already written of the south of France cathedrals; and the new books are bound uniformly with the others, and follow a similar method.”—Dial.
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“Architectural beauty, historical associations, and human interest are all considered, and accuracy rather than popularity is the author’s aim.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 425. D. 16, ’07. 110w.
=Nation.= 85: 543. D. 12, ’07. 60w.
“The book is almost as pleasant to read as to look at, being quite competent on the technical side and betraying the same artistic sensibility in text as in pictures.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 828. D. 14, ’07. 560w.
=Rose, Elise W.= Cathedrals and cloisters of the south of France: with il. from original photographs by Vida H. Francis. 2v. **$5. Putnam.
6–45154.
In which are arrayed artistic and historic charms of the cathedral and monasteries chiefly of Provence, Languedoc and Gascony. “This work aims to allure the curious traveller. It is not technical, and its historical side is not very systematic. Yet the author preserves a just sense of proportion.” (Nation.)
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 71. Mr. ’07.
“Only those who know intimately the south of France can appreciate the amount of trouble that has gone to the making of this book, and the excellence of the photographs by which it is illustrated.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 488. O. 19. 170w.
“She writes impersonally but informally, employs few technicalities, and describes and criticises in a general way rather than in detail. For the stay-at-home reader also these volumes will prove somewhat too diffuse to hold his interest.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 345. Je. 1, ’07. 320w.
“The author struggles rather helplessly with general historical and archaeological questions in the opening pages, and is often uncertain and inexpert in the use of language, but manages, nevertheless, with the help of many fine illustrations, to convey the charm.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 83. Ja. 24, ’07. 480w.
“Miss Francis’s work as a photographer is characteristic of technical ability, artistic selection of models, and a thorough knowledge of the subjects photographed.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 11: 812. D. 1, ’06. 160w.
“A delightful book. One can hardly imagine a more fascinating sort of collaboration.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 94. F. 16, ’07. 330w.
“The work is more attractive because of its apparent spontaneity of production.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 703. N. 24, ’06. 90w.
“It is evident that loving and conscientious thought and ample time have been given to the making of these volumes, which are full of interest, architectural, historical and picturesque.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 444. Jl. ’07. 260w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 383. Mr. ’07. 40w.
“One of the best books we have read for many a day.”
+ + − =Spec.= 98: 620. Ap. 20, ’07. 1520w.
=Rose, John Holland.= Development of the European nations, 1870–1900. 2v. ea. **$2.50. Putnam.
5–34973.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As essays, these volumes, apart from certain evidence of haste, would hold a high place; as serious history they do not appear, to the present writer, at least, to attain to the standard of historical writing set by Mr. Rose in his other work, nor indeed that reached by other work in the same field.” William E. Lingelbach.
− + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 485. N. ’06. 760w.
=Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th earl of.= Lord Randolph Churchill. **$2.25. Harper.
6–38396.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“By far the most lucid contribution to the political literature of the past few years.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 133. F. 9, ’07. 430w.
“Costs too much for the amount or value of the material in it.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 14. Ja. ’07.
“With all deductions made, however, it is a lifelike as well as brilliantly attractive portrait that Lord Rosebery has sketched in this book.” Edward Clark Marsh.
+ + − =Bookm.= 24: 439. Ja. ’07. 1540w.
“Is especially valuable for its candid tone and its critical judgment.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 114. F. 16, ’07. 350w.
“Lord Rosebery’s brilliant style and sparkling epigrams are admirably displayed in this study. Lord Rosebery’s book is full of charm, and one who begins it will not lay it aside until the end is reached.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 33: 207. F. ’07. 240w.
+ + =Ind.= 62: 499. F. 28, ’07. 770w.
Reviewed by Gertrude Atherton.
+ + =No. Am.= 184: 87. Ja. 4, ’07. 2030w.
“A fascinating study, absorbingly interesting from first to last. And yet, because of the anomalous attitude of the author toward the subject of his essay, it leaves an impression that is decidedly unpleasant.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 1077. D. 29, ’06. 750w.
Reviewed by George Louis Beer.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 762. Mr. ’07. 1380w.
=Rosenberg, E.= Electrical engineering: an elementary text-book; tr. by W. W. Haldane Gee and Carl Kinzbrunner; authorized ed. rev. and brought down to date for the American market by E. B. Raymond; new enl. rev. ed. *$2. Wiley.
7–970.
“The author aims to describe in concise form and in simple non-mathematical language the important applications of the electric current. The underlying principles were stated and briefly illustrated in an easy conversational style, the evident attempt being to write as one would have spoken in addressing his audience in person. The scope of the book covers the construction and operation of direct and alternating current generators and motors, electric lighting and power transmission.”—Engin. N.
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“The revision has improved the work as a text-book for schools and has not made it inaccessible to the general reader, as he can pass over these pages without losing the general plan. It covers the same ground as ‘Electrical engineering,’ by Slingo and Brooker, and is one of the very few books in which the attempt is made to do so much in a small space. The general make-up of the volume shows plainly the way in which it has been built; in fact, the ‘patching’ is quite evident.” Henry H. Norris.
+ + − =Engin. N.= 57: 196. F. 14, ’07. 610w.
* =Rosengarten, Joseph George.= French colonists and exiles in the United States. **$1. Lippincott.
7–30856.
An important undertaking in a field heretofore only partially covered. The author has gathered together from the works of recognized historians facts about the French colonists and the Huguenots which show how much “character and ability they brought to the United States.”
=Ross, Denman Waldo.= Theory of pure design: harmony, balance, rhythm. **$2.50. Houghton.
7–15335.
“A notable attempt to show the mathematical origin and structure of the plastic arts.... [it] deals principally with harmony, balance and rhythm.”—N. Y. Times.
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“The reasoning is clear and in most respects convincing; it would be entirely so but for a false note at the outset, in a definition of harmony which virtually makes it synonymous with unity and takes no note of the accordance of correlations.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 215. O. 1, ’07. 350w.
“The impression given by a reading of Professor Ross’s volume is a singular one. Each definition seems precise, each paragraph logical, and the sequence of ideas seems clear, the argument convincing, yet one goes on the end with an increasing dissatisfaction, a growing sense that something is wrong.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 506. My. 30, ’07. 2270w.
“Endless discussion is invited by every point he makes. There is no doubt, however, that perusal of his volumes will stimulate the faculty of artistic precision in production and criticism.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 450w.
=Ross, Edward Alsworth.= Foundations of sociology. *$1.25. Macmillan.
5–15556.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.
+ =Charities.= 17: 473. D. 15, ’07. 590w.
“No brief review, however, can do justice to the masterly manner in which most of these topics have been handled. Excellent as the book is, one receives the impression that it will hardly serve as the foundations of a science. It is rather a collection of carefully selected materials for such foundations. But ‘Foundations of sociology’ is something more than a scientific treatise. It is a piece of literature—and that it is good literature few would deny.” Alvin S. Johnson.
+ + − =Educ. R.= 33: 208. F. ’07. 1080w.
* =Ross, Edward Alsworth.= Sin and society: an analysis of latter-day iniquity; with a letter from President Roosevelt. **$1. Houghton.
7–36978.
“Professor Ross’ book is less an arraignment of the dictator-sinner, hiding behind corporations, than an exhortation to society in general to educate itself to know when our own democracy is outraged, and to the individual in particular to spend less time in painting Utopias and more in making good the things he has led his fellow men to expect of him. The discussion is pragmatistic.”
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=R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 180w.
=Rossetti, William Michael.= Some reminiscences of William Michael Rossetti. 2v. *$10. Scribner.
6–45370.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is a wonder that with his vast opportunities Mr. Rossetti did not make a more readable book. The trouble is he has not the dramatic gift; he has little feeling for portraiture.” James Huneker.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 15. Ja. 12, ’07. 2240w.
Reviewed by Jeannette L. Gilder.
+ =Putnam’s.= 1: 507. Ja. ’07. 570w.
“No one can put down these reminiscences without a feeling of kindliness and respect for the writer, which in these days of ‘revelations’ and disclosures is no small praise.”
+ =Spec.= 98: sup. 117. Ja. 26, ’07. 570w.
* =Round, Douglass.= Date of St. Paul’s epistle to the Galatians. *60c. Putnam.
“It is urged that Galatians was written from Antioch before the Council at Jerusalem and the second missionary journey, that is about 49–50 A. D. The argument is especially directed against certain elements in Ramsay’s position.”—Bib. World.
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=Bib. World.= 29: 479. Je. ’07. 30w.
“We neither assent nor dissent, but welcome the very reasonable and moderate tone of the writer.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 379. Mr. 9, ’07. 110w.
Round the world: a series of interesting illustrated articles on a great variety of subjects. 85c. Benziger.
=v. 2.= Includes the following chapters: American cut glass, Street scenes in different lands, A visit to Mammoth cave, How flax is made, The great Arizona desert, Plowing in many lands, A word about Turkey, The grape and raisin industry in the United States, The capitol at Washington, From Greece to Italy, Cadet life at West Point, and Grain, and how it is handled.
=v. 3.= Includes chapters on the great Eastern question, The West and the great petrified forest, In the footsteps of the apostles, Revetment work in the United States, Near to Galway town, In the heart of the African forest, The “blind” readers of the post office, The little republic, A day in the Zoo, The reclamation, service, and School-days in Egypt.
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=Cath. World.= 85: 690. Ag. ’07. 40w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Rowe, Eleanor.= Practical wood-carving: a book for the student, carver, teacher, designer, and architect. *$3. Lane.
W 7–124.
“The implements and woods employed, the various methods of work, Gothic, Renaissance, and pierced carving, are treated in successive chapters, amply illustrated, concluding with an instructive discussion of treatment and design. A useful glossary is appended.”—Int. Studio.
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“The book is practical, and the illustrations are beautiful.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 171. O. ’07.
+ =Int. Studio.= 31: 251. My. ’07. 950w.
“Carries her subject to a still further and more practical, more artistic development.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 279. Ap. 27, ’07. 300w.
“No one who reads this book can help being the wiser, for it is clear and practical, and the advice of the letterpress is well illustrated by reproductions of old and new work.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 722. My. 4, ’07. 150w.
=Rowntree, Joseph, and Sherwell, Arthur.= Taxation of the liquor trade, v. 1, *$3.25. Macmillan.
6–17254.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is not too much to say that the result is one of the most important books upon the subject ever produced. It is very doubtful whether there exists elsewhere, in so convenient form, information relative to the systems of taxation by the different states of this country.”
+ + + =Ann. Am. Acad.= 28: 469. N. ’06. 230w. (Review of v. 1.)
“The book is a mine of information on almost every phase of the subject and constitutes a notable addition to the scanty literature dealing with this side of taxation.”
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 565. S. ’07. 340w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Ruete, Frau Emilie.= Memoirs of an Arabian princess; tr. by Lionel Strachey. **$2.50. Doubleday.
7–29873.
“The ‘Memoirs,’ originally written, during a period of ill-health, for the future perusal of the author’s children, describe with great simpleness the Princess of Oman’s childhood in the Sultan’s palace and subsequently at the home of one of her brothers. The life of the harem, education of children, female fashions, the position of women in the East, Arabian suitorship and marriage, social customs, Mohammedan beliefs and festivals, medical methods, and the system of slavery are set forth from an intimate point of view.”—Lit. D.
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+ =Lit. D.= 35: 656. N. 2, ’07. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“Her book is written in the simplest manner, and with a feeling for the value of picturesque and telling detail, and the two together make it a vivid picture of a sort of life as distant and as different from that of the princess’s American readers as if she had come out of the days of Haroun al Raschid.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 687. O. 26, ’07. 330w.
“A new book containing some interesting intimate revelations of Arab life.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 636. N. ’07. 60w.
=Ruggles, John.= Recollections of a Lucknow veteran. *$1.50. Longmans.
7–29042.
“This is an interesting and characteristic narrative of the Indian mutiny by a Lucknow veteran.... The familiar story is given here with many added incidents by a veteran who looked all these things in the face, and who retains a keen recollection of them.”—Lit. D.
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“It is fresh and spontaneous, commendably brief and modest, and in many ways a model autobiography.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 14. Ja. 5, ’07. 360w.
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 594. Ap. 13, ’07. 130w.
+ =Spec.= 98: 58. Ja. 12, ’07. 240w.
=Ruhl, Arthur B.= Break in training, and other athletic stories; il. by Howard Chandler Christy. $1.25. Outing pub.
6–43781.
A reissue of a book first copyrighted in 1900. The present edition contains a colored frontispiece by Howard Chandler Christy.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 18. Ja. ’07.
“They could not have been written before Kipling, but they are none the worse for that. We should like to see Kipling beat them. These stories are clean and wholesome, yet emphatically manly.”
+ + + =Ind.= 62: 738. Mr. 28, ’07. 290w.
“It is a clean book and a healthful book. It is not profound, and it does not ruffle the waters of psychology. This collection of stories is noteworthy for its sincerity.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 141. Mr. 9, ’07. 260w.
“Mr. Ruhl’s style of writing suits his subjects very well, as a ‘Break in training’ pleasantly demonstrates.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 768. Je. ’07. 50w.
=Russel, Mrs. Florence Kimball.= A woman’s journey through the Philippines on a cable ship that linked together the strange lands seen en route. $2.50. Page.
7–23256.
An interestingly written and fully illustrated book which is chatty and informing and characterized by truly feminine observation.
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“Bright and witty travel-talk.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“She sprinkles her sprightly narrative with much information, some of it intentional and some of it unconscious, about the native character and the nature and resources of the islands.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 420w.
=Russell, Charles Edward.= Uprising of the many. **$1.50. Doubleday.
7–23946.
Questions are answered here that grow out of “the threat of a moneyed autocracy, the passing of wealth, and the power for which wealth stands, into the hands of a few.” “These chapters, largely a republication of material that has already appeared in Everybody’s magazine, form a powerful indictment against the shameless greed of ‘vested interests,’ and exhibit our own country as tolerating, constitutionally, legally, and by tacit consent, some of the most outrageous injustices in the history of the world.” (Dial.)
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“His book is rich in instructive matter.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 256. O. 16, ’07. 270w.
“Has collected an immense amount of information that is of value to the perplexed student of current economic conditions in this country. The author’s view is a partizan one and occasionally passes over fairly obvious defects in the workings of the system of governmental and municipal control and ownership which he describes.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 390w.
“Altogether while much that he says is really informing, there is so much that requires to be read with great critical caution that we can hardly commend his work to the otherwise uninstructed reader.”
− + =Outlook.= 87: 543. N. 9, ’07. 260w.
“It is a comprehensive survey of the world movement for the democratization of industry.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 758. D. ’07. 60w.
=Russell, George William E.= Seeing and hearing. *$2.50. Dutton.
7–37516.
“A volume of mixed gossip and reminiscence.... Mr. Russell knows English society intimately, and this volume is a sort of chorus accompanying it throughout its ‘season’ and on its travels. There are five chapters on the pleasures, or pangs of the table; others on social changes, purple and fine linen, suburban Sundays, hospitality, ostentation, publicity versus reticence, etc.”—Nation.
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“On the whole, we like Mr. Russell best when he is touching on his earlier reminiscences.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 472. Ap. 20. 450w.
“In ‘Seeing and hearing’ he still further works the vein opened in the two earlier volumes, but leaves the reader a little disposed to query whether the vein is not getting worked out.”
− + =Dial.= 42: 316. My. 16, ’07. 310w.
“This new book differs from the old in not containing so many anecdotes, and in being a trifle more reflective, even pensive at times, but the note is much the same.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 160w.
“His style, less severely academic and chastened than Mr. Benson’s, has a charm of its own—the charm of the easy, flowing talk of a man of the world.” A. I. du. P. Coleman.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 615. Ag. ’07. 220w.
“It has ... an excellent literary touch, and it is full of good stories, most of which will be new even to readers of Mr. Russell’s books.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 403. Mr. 30, ’07. 200w.
“It is always easy to read Mr. Russell and it is commonly worth while. But he writes in haste, and does not always verify his references.”
+ − =Spec.= 98: 982. Je. 22, ’07. 1410w.
=Russell, Louis Arthur.= Commonplaces of vocal art: a plain statement of the philosophy of singing. $1. Ditson.
7–23091.
A volume for the singer, teacher and platform speaker which treats of the philosophy of the voice and of voice use, and offers suggestions as to the best method of practice for the development of the speaking voice and the voice in singing.
=Russell, T. Baron.= Hundred years hence; the expectations of an optimist. *$1.50. McClurg.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“Taken in small quantities, Mr. Russell’s prophecy is diverting, but those who read it continuously may wish that parts of it had been written in the age predicted by the author, when ‘boredom’ shall have been abolished.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 40. Ja. 10, ’07. 470w.
=Rutherford, Ernest.= Radioactive transformations; with diagrams. **$3.50. Scribner.
6–39464.
The Silliman lectures delivered at Yale in 1905. “Some treatment of radioactivity in general is given, and then a detailed development of the special subject of the book. This treatment differs only from the author’s previous expositions in the greater detail in which the subject is worked out.” (Nature.)
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“Although this book is less comprehensive, as far as the general treatment of radioactive phenomena is concerned, than his previous work on ‘Radioactivity,’ it is divested of most of the technical terms which baffle the general reader, and is, in consequence, a book for both the student and the intelligent layman.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 71. Mr. ’07.
“We have the less compunction in thus drawing attention to these blemishes in what we believe to be a very valuable book that they are all such as may be easily removed either in the next edition or in the next public pronouncement Prof. Rutherford may make on the subject.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 18. Ja. 5. 2190w.
+ + + =Nation.= 84: 68. Ja. 17, ’07. 940w.
“The only doubt which can be felt is whether it meets any want which was not already satisfied by his previous work, ‘Radio-activity.’” R. J. Strutt.
+ + − =Nature.= 75: 195. D. 27, ’06. 780w.
“Whilst his writings are always authoritative, and therefore welcome to the student, they have been divested in this volume of most of the technical and mathematical subtleties which necessarily repel the general reader in such a book as that of Professor Thomson, and there is hardly a page which cannot be understood by the intelligent layman.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 20. Ja. 5, ’07. 820w.
* =Ruville, Albert von.= William Pitt: earl of Chatham. 3v. *$9. Putnam.
After the manner of German scholarship thoro research prepared the way for Ruville’s life of the “Great commoner.” “On two points he has, we think, added something valuable to our knowledge of Pitt. He brings out strongly the share which Pitt was forced to take in the personal intrigues which seemed so large an element in contemporary politics, the influence of his connections, of the Grenvilles especially, on his career, and the extent to which for many years he depended on the support of the Prince of Wales and the Leicester house party. And. secondly, Dr. von Ruville succeeds in making Lord Bute’s share in English politics clearer than it has been made before.” (Nation.)
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“One does miss, perhaps, now and then, a style and manner rising to a great occasion, as in the account of Chatham’s last speech in the lords—where, by the way, he did not die, as pictorial tradition represents. The fact of translation, though this one is excellently well done, may account for this, though, to be sure, impressive writing is not the mark of modern histories.” G. S. S.
+ − =Acad.= 73: 85. N. 2, ’07. 1070w.
“The perusal of his conscientious pages leaves behind it a sense of disappointment. Dr. von Ruville is, in the first place, destitute of eloquence. Secondly, he takes but little account of human nature.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 511. O. 26. 890w.
“Will always be of value to the historical student, at any rate as a mine of information. Throughout it he shows extraordinary wrong-headed judgment not in the presentation of facts, but in the deductions which he draws from them.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 329. N. 1, ’07. 1230w.
“It is only when we come to look for breadth of view or width of treatment, for perception, proportion, sympathy, illumination, in fact for those larger qualities which make history and biography alive, that we are driven reluctantly to the conclusion that the book is unhappily depressing and depreciatory.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 517. D. 5, ’07. 1770w.
“Dr. von Ruville goes through his work after the fashion of a chemist in his laboratory, weighing, dissolving, calculating, and recording results with the patient pen of science.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 104: 638. N. 23, ’07. 2420w.
“It is the first history of Chatham which in any way brings together all the results which may be obtained from manuscripts and printed material. Save for a few trivial mistakes, the translation is well done. It is not inspiring; but then the original German has none of the qualities of eloquence.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 775. N. 16, ’07. 1970w.
=Ryan, John Augustine.= Living wage: its ethical and economic aspects. *$1. Macmillan.
6–14607.
Descriptive note in Annual. 1906.
“Is a good contribution on a most important subject. All good men everywhere should welcome this serious attempt to find the ethical and economic basis of just wages, and be grateful for its sane and dearly stated findings.” T. J. Riley.
+ + − =Am. J. Soc.= 12: 561. Ja. ’07. 860w.
Reviewed by David Y. Thomas.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 234. Ja. ’07. 600w.
Reviewed by W: J. White.
=Charities.= 17: 471. D. 15. ’06. 880w.
“As a whole the work appears to be scholarly. The organization of the material used is excellent. On the main point however—the validity of the author’s ethical theory and judgment—the economic student cannot of course pass judgment.” R. F. Hoxie.
+ =J. Pol. Econ.= 15: 641. D. ’07. 280w.
“The writer of this book has brought together in clear and readable form most of the essential arguments which have been offered for his contention; and he has supplied to trade unions and advocates of advanced social legislation very telling arguments for their position.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ =Dial.= 42: 288. My. 1, ’07. 370w.
=Ryan, Marah Ellis.= Indian love letters. **$1. McClurg.
7–10045.
The hopeless love of a high-minded Indian for a fair haired girl in the East chants its sorrow here. Pathos, despair, renunciation, never impersonal where love is concerned, all stalk by the side of this stalwart young Indian over the sand dunes of Arizona. It is the old, old story but is tempered and colored by the strain of Indian poetry that reflects innate worship of Nature.
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“The author has compressed a great deal within a few pages, and has managed her original and difficult theme with much artistic skill. The ethnic is one with the romantic element of the letters.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 178. Mr. 23, ’07. 400w.
* =Ryley, M. Beresford.= Queens of the renaissance. **$2. Small.
A study of these types of the renaissance really means a study of the rapid development of woman’s intellect and fascination thru the humanist movement in Italy.
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“Miss Ryley has done her work well. She writes clearly, and with gusto, though at times she is led into being gratuitously ornate.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 864. S. 7, ’07. 810w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
“The subject necessarily brings the writer and reader into situations which require tact to be properly dealt with. Here, again, we find little to commend.”
− + =Spec.= 99: 335. S. 7, ’07. 170w.
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=Sabatier, Paul.= Disestablishment in France. *$1.25. Scribner.
6–21194.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The book lacks unity but presents the material in a style both instructive and clear. It is especially valuable for its presentation of the causes underlying the contest.”
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 29: 222. Ja. ’07. 820w.
=Sabin, Louis Carlton.= Cement and concrete. 2d ed., rev. and enl. *$5. McGraw pub.
7–14245.
“The second edition has been enlarged from 507 to 572 pages, two pages of which have been added to the chapter on ‘Definitions and constituents,’ 12 pages to the chapter on ‘Manufacture,’ and the remainder to a new chapter on ‘Concrete building blocks; their manufacture and use,’ and to three appendices giving the standard specifications for cement.”—Engin. N.
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“The book as it now stands is an admirable treatise on concrete as a material, but must be taken in connection with some reference book of design and construction to make a complete survey of the field of what may be called concrete engineering.”
+ =Engin. N.= 58: 75. Jl. 18, ’07. 450w.
=Sage, William.= By right divine. †$1.50. Little.
7–21363.
Two men contend for political supremacy in their state and for the love of the heroine, in this political romance. One is the old Senator, the boss of his state, and the girl he loves is his daughter. The other is a young man of rigid principles who has been elected governor, whose growing power with the people menaces the older man’s prestige, and whose manly courage bids fair to supplant him as first in his daughter’s heart. The contest is bitterly fought, until honesty and youth and love triumph.
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“Though the element of improbability is at times present, the book as a whole is very true to life, and as a present-day political study it ranks with the best romances of recent years.”
+ + − =Arena.= 38: 348. S. ’07. 970w.
“Mr. Sage handles his stock situation skilfully, and gives his story a certain freshness by various accessory devices.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 64. Ag. 1, ’07. 240w.
=Ind.= 63: 572. S. 5, ’07. 220w.
“It should be noted that all the love passages have a convincing, manly air, while an underlying sincerity runs through the book and makes it a most readable and wholesome novel of its class.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 489. O. 5, ’07. 340w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 220w.
=Saglio, Andre.= French furniture. (Library of applied arts.) *$2.50. Scribner.
W 7–141.
A general history of the subject from the time of the Gauls down thru the Empire. There are ninety full-page plates, reproduced from photographs.
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“This volume has not many obvious faults, and constitutes a fairly accurate guide to a study which, however, requires knowledge of the French tongue.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 172. Je. 1. 300w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 32: 252. S. ’07. 100w.
“He has wished perhaps to make a thoughtful and readable book. The result is that we are presented with an essay upon the decorative art of many periods of French history, without being enabled to grasp firmly the manufacture and the design of any one period.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 289. S. 26, ’07. 510w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 446. Jl. 13. ’07. 430w.
* =Sakurai, Tadayoshi.= Human bullets: a soldier’s story of Port Arthur; introd. by Count Okuma; tr. by Masujiro Honda and ed. by Alice M. Bacon. **$1.25. Houghton.
7–31244.
The actual experiences of the author who was a lieutenant in the Japanese army. One feels the personal responsibility which every soldier assumed for the outcome of the war, “the determination, the devotion to duty and the adaptability which won for the Japanese soldier such general sympathy and admiration in this country.” (Bookm.)
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“Not only is the work ... the best that we have on fighting, but it also forms a valuable study of the relations between Buddhist and Shintu or official Japanese doctrine. The translation appears to be thoroughly competent.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 616. N. 16. 820w.
“A curious study in race psychology is afforded by this ‘soldier’s story of Port Arthur’. The book furnishes a striking picture of what war actually is, even under its most humane aspects. And at a time when the eyes of the whole world are on Japan, it is worth while to be told so authoritatively just what manner of fighting man the Japanese soldier is.” Ward Clark.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 414. D ’07. 580w.
“Considering the great difficulty of finding English phrases to give the exact meaning of the original, the translation has been very well done, though occasionally the choice of words is not happy. No review of the work would be quite complete without some reference to the colored frontispiece, reproduced from a drawing made by the author with his left hand after he had lost his right in the war.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 289. N. 1, ’07. 390w.
“The essential interest and the real value of the little book is its record of the writer’s inner man, not merely of what his bone and flesh and blood and nerves did and suffered, but of his essential personality, perfectly exemplified that ‘as a man thinketh so he is.’”
+ =Nation.= 85: 492. N. 28, ’07. 400w.
=Salaman, Malcolm Charles.= Old engravers of England in their relation to contemporary life and art. *$2. Lippincott.
7–6389.
“In a brief compass the author cannot do more than glance at many of the two hundred and more engravers whom he mentions, but his description of the principal characters is adequate, and the whole army is marshalled before the reader in strict relation to the object of the book.”—Acad.
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“This is a novel, interesting and almost romantic book. It clothes the dry bones of black-and-white prints with human attributes, and makes them live. The illustrations considering the low price of the book, are exceptionally good; in fact, some of them may be said to be remarkably beautiful.”
+ =Acad.= 72: 117. F. 2, ’07. 700w.
“His pages flash with coronets, and sentimental rapture.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 742. D. 8. 310w.
“The volume is indeed, a combination of good things well served. Gossip and portraiture and art are deftly interlaced, so that the reading of the pages is no less agreeable than instructive.” Charles Henry Hart.
+ =Dial.= 43: 60. Ag. 1, ’07. 540w.
“The ideal collector is he who has this instinct, supported by knowledge, but who has also felt the fascination of looking in at all the side-doors upon history which old prints open. Mr. Salaman is such an ideal collector, and so proves himself a true guide for the novice and a companion of the already wise.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 32: 336. O. ’07. 300w.
“The book makes interesting reading; and yet there is too much of a certain air of attempted jocosity. An earnest reader will ask for a more grave and orderly treatment.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 268. S. 19, ’07. 940w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 273. Ap. 27, ’07. 490w.
“If the old prints are worth anyone’s attention first of all because of their intrinsic merit as works of art, they are worth quite as much because they link us intimately with the past. A book has always been needed which should unite these two view points of art and life. At last it has come.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 745. Ag. 3, ’07. 290w.
“Mr. Salaman gives a lucid and sufficient account of the engravers, and one which moreover is quite readable and intelligible to the inexperienced public. For this reason his book should be of value.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 103: 19. Ja. 5, ’07. 1090w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 398. D. 8, ’06. 200w.
=Saleeby, Caleb Williams.= Worry, the disease of the age. **$1.35. Stokes.
7–16990.
“Dr. Saleeby apparently conceives worry as a sort of an entity, and he seems to hold to the old distinction of body and mind. Worry, for him, can be a cause, and one may gather is rather a cause than a mere result. And so he gives us instances of how worry can ruin one’s digestion, with it one’s temper as well, and make one thoroughly and really ill. This seems to the writer a curious reversal of the familiar relations of the cart and the horse.”—N. Y. Times.
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“A new volume of double usefulness: from the practical side offering serviceable hints for what he considers the disease of the age, and from the theoretical setting in their proper, light the current notions as to the healthful relations of mind and body.” I. Woodbridge Riley.
+ + =Bookm.= 26: 410. D. ’07. 1950w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 26. Jl. 6, ’07. 230w.
“A profoundly serious medical consideration with much that is philosophical in the most practical and helpful way.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 268. Ap. 27, ’07. 100w.
“He has read widely, he has studied deeply, he has thought out things for himself, and these are the fruits. Dr. Saleeby is a true philosopher.” Carl Snyder.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 313. My. 18, ’07. 2110w.
“This is a good book on a grave subject, which it treats in an all-round discussion on causes and effects, physical and psychical, from scientific and practical, moral and religious points of view.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 342. Je. 15, ’07. 190w.
“A noteworthy volume of sociological as well as scientific import.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 125. Jl. ’07. 70w.
“A most capable and thoughtful series of essays.”
+ + =Spec.= 98: 1006. Je. 29, ’07. 1110w.
=Salisbury, Rollin D.= Physiography. (American science ser., advanced course.) *$3.50. Holt.
7–16499.
An important text-book achievement which provides a complete course for those “who have no purpose of pursuing the study of physical geography beyond its elements, but who are yet mature enough for work beyond the grade appropriate for the early years of the secondary schools.” It outlines the work covered in the University of Chicago in a twelve weeks’ course.
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“The field is thoroughly and consistently explored.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 268. S. 19, ’07. 200w.
“Teachers of physiography will welcome this new book, not only on account of the large amount of fresh material and the fine illustrations that it contains, but also because it represents the accumulated experience and the method of a scientist whose skill as a teacher is well known and widely appreciated.” L. H. Wood.
+ + =School R.= 15: 621. O. ’07. 1230w.
“Professor Salisbury’s book meets a real want and the character of its compilation, based as it is, on many years of experience in teaching, gives the book a completeness far beyond any other physiography published up to this time.” George Burbank Shattuck.
+ + =Science=, n.s. 26: 830. D. 13, ’07. 510w.
=Salmon, George.= Human element in the gospels: a commentary on the synoptic narrative; ed. by Newport J. D. White. *$4.50. Dutton.
“By ‘the human element’ is meant, in distinction from divine revelations, ‘things that can be proved by ordinary historical testimony’—including, as Dr. Salmon assumes, the miraculous element in the gospels. His work is essentially devoted to an investigation of the sources of the gospel story, conducted with a purposed independence of traditional opinions.... ‘Editorial blunders’ are found in Matthew, and Luke is found to have ‘taken liberties with the earlier tradition’ of the resurrection. The Greek text only of the gospels, substantially that of Wescott and Hort, is given in parallel columns, beginning with the entrance of Jesus on his public career.”—Outlook.
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“While the reader comes upon interesting and suggestive remarks, he meets with no real or consistent solution.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 438. Ap. 13. 640w.
“It is a striking fact that a scholar of the breadth and thoroness of Dr. Salmon, who gave so many years to this problem, apparently paid no attention whatever to the works of continental scholars.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 696. S. 19, ’07. 540w.
“The chief usefulness of Dr. Salmon’s book lies in the acumen with which he discusses particular passages.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 163. My. 24, ’07. 1060w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 188. Ag. 29, ’07. 600w.
“The critical commentary upon it shows a cultured scholarship and freedom which prompt to agreement with the author’s regret that he had not undertaken the study till late in life.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 837. Ag. 17, ’07. 260w.
=Spec.= 98: 982. Je. 22, ’07. 200w.
=Salmon, Lucy Maynard.= Progress in the household. **$1.10. Houghton.
6–38548.
Ten essays entitled Recent progress in the study of domestic service, Education in the household, The relation of college women to domestic science, Sairey Gamp and Dora Copperfield, Economics and ethics in domestic service, “Put yourself in his place,” Our kitchen, An illustrated edition, and The woman’s exchange.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 71. Mr. ’07.
“While the author does not offer any universal agent for a lightning change she does write with knowledge and ability, and her opinion should have weight with thoughtful women.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 1081. D. 29, ’06. 130w.
=Saltus, Edgar Evertson.= Lords of the ghostland: a history of the ideal. *$1.25. Kennerley.
7–14564.
The history of the ideal, the genealogy of its overlords, Brahma, Armuzd, Amon-Râ, Bel-Marduk, Jehovah, Zeus, Jupiter and of the Christ himself, is here given in a spirit which lifts the veil without rending it.
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“His treatment of each subject is a deft mingling of historical knowledge, philosophical method and poetic feeling.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 512. Ag. 24, ’07. 150w.
* =Sanday, Rev. William.= Life of Christ in recent research. *$1.75. Oxford.
7–33561.
“Certain recent lectures, reviews, and sermons of Professor Sanday’s have been combined into this volume. It presents a survey of the most important literature of the past twenty years upon the life and person of Christ with a special chapter on miracles.”—Bib. World.
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“Professor Sanday’s well-known scholarly moderation characterizes the whole.”
+ =Bib. World.= 30: 480. D. ’07. 50w.
“As a matter of fact, we have another preliminary essay—a survey of the chief tendencies and the more important conclusions of the criticism to which the evangelic narratives have been subjected in the last twenty years. No English writer is so well qualified as Dr. Sanday to make such a survey. Not only is he himself one of our most thorough and most cautious critics, but his appetite for German brochures is insatiable. The charm of the whole book lies in the receptiveness of its author’s mind.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 322. O. 25, ’07. 1270w.
=Sanders, Frank Knight, and Fowler, Henry Thatcher.= Outlines for the study of Biblical history and literature; with maps and charts. (Historical ser. for Bible students, v. 9.) **$1.25. Scribner.
6–39458.
“Intelligent direction for systematic and discriminating study” is the aim of this book. It meets the needs of four classes of student: (1) the college student, (2) the graduate student in oriental history, (3) the student of theology, and (4) the general student of the Bible. The book covers both the Old and New Testaments, and is divided into four parts: (1) Hebrew literature and history, reaching from the beginning to the fall of Jerusalem (586 B. C.); (2) early Jewish history and literature (586–168 B. C.); (3) later Jewish history and literature (168 B. C.–135 A. D.); (4) early Christian history and literature.
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“If there is one point in which the work does not come up to the standard laid down by the authors, it is that of answering the requirements of the graduate student. Otherwise, by a wise use of the literature assigned and a classification of the material thus procured there is little doubt that the book will prove very useful and helpful in filling the blanks in many students minds which should be occupied by Biblical history.” Ira M. Brice and John M. P. Smith.
+ + − =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 141. Ja. ’07. 260w.
“A valuable outline with useful bibliographies which would help small libraries in purchasing the best books on the subjects treated.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 71. Mr. ’07. S.
+ =Bib. World.= 28: 432. D. ’06. 60w.
+ =Dial.= 41: 462. D. 16, ’06. 60w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 50w.
“As is the case with most works in English covering both the Old and the New Testaments, the treatment of Old Testament subjects is much superior.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 33. Ja. 10, ’07. 240w.
“They give ample direction to the most recent works of Biblical scholars, with strict impartiality toward the supporters of divergent conclusions.”
+ =Outlook.= 84: 839. D. 1, ’06. 130w.
=Sanders, Wilbur E.; McDonald, Bernard; Parlee, Norman W.; and others.= Mine timbering. $2. Hill pub. co.
7–19426.
A collection of papers which form a series of essays emphasizing many important details rather than a complete treatise on the subject.
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Reviewed by E. J. McCaustland.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 669. Je. 13, ’07. 880w.
=Sanderson, Edgar.= Great Britain in modern Africa. $1.75. Scribner.
7–10993.
“A volume which gathers into easy compass the history and geography of all the present divisions and governments of Africa.... It treats of Germany, France, Portugal, and Italy in Africa, as well as of Great Britain. The only parts left untouched are the western countries in the Mediterranean.... It is a handbook of information concerning Africa, including statistics of imports and exports, revenue, population, and other matters.”—Nation.
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+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 441. O. 13. 640w.
“Mr. Sanderson’s history ... is told with vivacity and exact detail.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 178. F. 21, ’07. 460w.
“Mr. Sanderson’s account of recent events is admirably concise and comprehensive, and affords an excellent idea of the many-sided activity of Great Britain from the Cape to Cairo and from Nigeria to Uganda.”
+ =Sat. R.= 102: 402. S. 29, ’06. 170w.
=Sanford, P. Gerald.= Nitro-explosives: a practical treatise concerning the properties, manufacture, and analysis of nitrated substances, including the fulminates, smokeless powders and celluloid. 2d ed. *$4. Van Nostrand.
War 7–20.
A work which “for ten years has been a standard authority, and now is revised and brought up to date. It describes the processes of manufacture of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gun-cotton, picrates, and fulminates, and gives the methods of analyzing them and testing their strength.”—Nation.
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“The text is too much like the old, with some slight changes and explanations, and not at all enough reference to the progress in the manufacture of smokeless powders and insensitive blasting powders.” Charles F. McKenna
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 83. Ja. 17, ’07. 860w.
=Nation.= 84: 438. My. 9, ’07. 130w.
=Santayana, George.= Life of reason; or, The phases of human progress. 5v. ea. **$1.25. Scribner.
5–5419.
“This book is so wanting in clearness of thought that I doubt whether it can be of much use to anyone. Throughout the book, Mr. Santayana makes a great many scattered remarks, which are certainly ‘suggestive,’ and perhaps (as he himself declares to be his object) ‘stimulating,’ but what he says seems to be always mixed with a great deal that is definitely erroneous, and always imbedded in a mass that is greatly wanting in clearness.” G. E. Moore.
− =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 248. Ja. ’07. 2500w. (Review of v. 1–5.)
“These later volumes, though containing much that would be interesting, if Professor Santayana had not already made us familiar with his point of view and characteristic method of treatment, are something of a disappointment. It is not easy to see exactly for what class of readers they are intended. Unfortunately the last volume ‘Reason in science’—the only one of the last three volumes in which the author enters a new field—is perhaps the most disappointing of all.” Ernest Albee.
− =Philos. R.= 16: 195. Mr. ’07. 3980w. (Review of v. 3–5.)
=Sargent, Dudley Allen.= Physical education. *$1.50. Ginn.
6–37870.
An attempt “to place the training of the body upon the same educational basis as the training of the intellect.” There are chapters upon The physical training of the American people; Physical exercise and longevity; Physical education in colleges, in secondary, and in elementary schools; and ideals in physical education.
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“A valuable contribution to the subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 48. F. ’07. S.
“There is much of interest in the volume.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 402. N. 8, ’06. 50w.
=Sargent, Herbert Howland.= Campaign of Santiago de Cuba. 3v. **$5. McClurg.
7–29604.
A full summary in three volumes of the campaign of our army and navy at Santiago in 1898. It is compiled from official documents, contains twelve maps which show the scene of fighting, and above all is fearless in its “criticism of American arms and in its tributes to the feats of Spanish valor.”
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“The first thorough and complete account of the war between the United States and the Spanish in Cuba.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 454. O. 26, ’07. 140w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 510. O. ’07. 190w.
=Saunders, Margaret Marshall (“Marshall Saunders”).= Beautiful Joe; with an introd. by Hezekiah Butterworth. il. †$1.25. Am. Bapt.
7–28456.
A new and enlarged edition of this companion to “Black Beauty.” It is a dog’s autobiography which teaches a lesson of kindness not only to dogs but to the entire animal kingdom.
=Savage, William G.= Bacteriological examination of water-supplies. *$2.50. Blakiston.
Agr 7–1421.
By eliminating elementary matter, and by omitting a part of data early collected, the author has made his treatise one which covers only the pertinent phases of the subject.
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“Among the many books which have been recently written on the bacteriology of water, this latest one ... is by all odds the best. Although it is a comparatively small book, it covers the ground more thoroughly than any other.” George C. Whipple.
+ =Engin. N.= 57: 661. Je. 13, ’07. 1040w.
“The chapter on the interpretation of results is particularly to be recommended. The medical officer of health, and the analyst, and the bacteriologist will find this book a trustworthy and useful guide.” R. T. Hewlett.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 245. Jl. 11, ’07. 120w.
=Sayce, Rev. Archibald Henry.= Archaeology of the cuneiform inscriptions: Rhine lectures. *$1.75. Gorham.
The volume “opens with a brief, but excellent account of the method of decipherment of the cuneiform inscriptions, describes the nature of the inscriptions found, shows the relation of the Sumerians to Semitic people, that of the Egyptian to the Babylonian civilization, that of Palestine to Babylonia, the character of the Hittite people of Asia Minor, and describes the condition of Canaan before the Exodus.”—Ind.
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+ =Acad.= 72: 265. Mr. 16, ’07. 850w.
“The whole forms a sufficiently compact and readable account. Both these faults (the habit of stating conjectures as facts, and of catching at any parallel, however wild, which seems to bear out preconceived conclusions) are very much in evidence in this volume, and go some way towards spoiling what is one of the most interesting books that Prof. Sayce has written.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 296. Mr. 9. 1590w.
“Like all of Professor Sayce’s writings, it is very suggestive, broad in treatment, and the conclusions sometimes rest on insufficient evidence.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 445. F. 21, ’07. 90w.
“Great mass of information closely packed in this small volume.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 103: 753. Je. 15, ’07. 1040w.
“The story ... is well worth reading; nothing in literary history surpasses it; Professor Sayce, who has himself had no small part in its evolution, tells it with admirable clearness. Of course, it is not by any mean finished.”
+ − =Spec.= 97: 220. F. 9, ’07. 340w.
=Schaff, Morris.= Spirit of old West Point. **$3. Houghton.
7–32862.
While there is a personal note sounded thruout this autobiography, it chronicles the universal experiences of all West Point cadets and so is important as a historic document. The early experiences of the newly-arrived youth through physical hardening processes to which he is subjected give way to the months of patriotic endeavor which result in the “ever-enduring virtues that characterize the soldier, the Christian and the gentleman.”
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“His love of poetic imagery, his tendency to infuse with life and feeling the inanimate objects about him, his fondness for drawing spiritual truths from material facts give to his narrative a higher beauty and a deeper meaning than we are wont to find in a soldier’s reminiscences.” Percy F. Bicknell.
+ + =Dial.= 43. 310. N. 16, ’07. 1500w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 875. D. 7, ’07. 410w.
“This book presents an interesting and vivid description of this discipline, physical, mental, and moral, by which a boy acquires ‘the ideals of the soldier and the gentleman.’”
+ =Nation.= 85: 499. N. 28, ’07. 920w.
“A volume that has both historical value and picturesque interest.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 748. N. 28, ’07. 140w.
“Throughout the volume the element of human interest strongly predominates.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 754. D. ’07. 120w.
=Schaff, Rev. Philip.= History of the Christian church. 5v. v. 5, pt. 1. **$3.25. Scribner.
=v. 5, pt. 1.= The middle ages from Gregory VII., 1049, to Boniface VIII., 1294, by David S. Schaff. “The period of the present volume is that of the papal theocracy and the scholastic theology, the ‘Blüthezeit’ of Catholicism, when it would hardly do to laugh in one’s sleeve at an encyclical. It was the time also of the rise of the universities, of the enthusiasm of the crusades, and of the noblest development of church architecture. The coming historian who writes a really great history of this period will find the ground well broken by this honorable endeavor of a son to complete a father’s unfinished task.” (Ind.)
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=Dial.= 43: 322. N. 16, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 5, pt. 1.)
“General libraries, as well as those of ministers and ecclesiastical institutions will find the work invaluable for reference.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 945. O. 17, ’07. 420w. (Review of v. 5, pt. 1.)
“A narrative interestingly put, well arranged and with copious references to the original sources. This volume is valuable both for the general reader and for the special student.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 677. O. 26. ’07. 120w. (Review of v. 5, pt. 1.)
“It is conspicuous for the qualities which secured to his father international fame.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 453. O. 26, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 5, pt. 1.)
* =Scharff, R. F.= European animals. *$2.50. Dutton.
An introductory chapter treats of general matters affecting zoological distribution and the value of land mammals and molluscs as a basis for zoological geography. Then “beginning with Ireland he describes some of the most characteristic animals—and, in spite of his title, the plants—and by tracing them to their original homes, he, little by little, reveals the past geological changes which have affected that island.” (Nation.)
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=Ath.= 1907, 1: 764. Je. 22. 80w.
“For thoroughness and general scientific worth in its restricted geographical field, Dr. Scharff’s volume will long remain unequalled.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 450. N. 14, ’07. 550w.
“The volume should be in the library of every naturalist.” R. L.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 441. Ag. 29, ’07. 790w.
“Dr. Scharff’s work contributes to the science a great wealth of facts and observations collected from many sources. The general reader will find the subject treated in a manner that is rather beyond him; for the book is one that must be read with care and concentrated attention.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 367. S. 14, ’07. 450w.
=Scherer, James Augustin Brown.= What is Japanese morality? *75c. S. S. times co.
6–43772.
Five essays which discuss Japanese morality. While they do full justice to Japan’s lofty idealism, they also point out the weak points in the Oriental code.
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“On the whole Dr. Scherer is reasonable and judicial.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 328. F. 7. ’07. 510w.
“Has been able to cram an astonishing amount of information into a little volume.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 298. Je. 8, ’07. 370w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 108. Ja. ’07. 90w.
=Schiller, Ferdinand Canning Scott.= Studies in humanism. *$3.25. Macmillan.
7–25524.
“This volume is the most comprehensive and far-reaching exposition of the new humanism that has appeared, yet the possibilities it suggests are more fascinating than the theories it definitely develops.” (Ind.) “What is humanism? And what its Transatlantic cousin, pragmatism? Have we in either of them a logic or a metaphysic, or both, or neither? Dr. Schiller does not shirk these questions.” (Ath.) His best constructive work is the essay on “The making of truth” in which he “disclaims the notion that truth is created by us out of nothing.”
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+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 281. Mr. 9. 2020w.
“Whatever we may think of Dr. Schiller’s theory, he has given us an attractive and stimulating book—marked by acuteness and lucidity.” Herbert D. Stewart.
+ + − =Hibbert J.= 5: 938. Jl. ’07. 2320w.
“Is largely controversial. Unfortunately only one side is given, so the effect is like listening to a man talking into a telephone. Our enjoyment of the author’s wit is often restrained by the question whether it is properly deserved.”
− + =Ind.= 62: 797. Ap. 4, ’07. 880w.
“His criticism is always well worth reading. On the other hand, his own system contains not a few features which will give many pause.”
+ − =Nature.= 76: 220. Jl. 4, ’07. 560w.
“Yet with all his noble rage for concrete truth he is one of the must abstract of writers. This characteristic makes his latest work ... pretty stiff and not extravagantly fruitful reading.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 348. Je. 1, ’07. 190w.
“The finished and attractive literary style in which he presents the new humanism manifests its identity, notwithstanding difference, with the old.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 37. My. 4, ’07. 360w.
“Not only is Dr. Schiller, as we infer, young himself, but he is also writing for the young.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 420. O. 5, ’07. 2170w.
=Schillings, Carl Georg.= In wildest Africa. *$5. Harper.
7–35387.
Encouraged by the reception of his “With flashlight and rifle,” the author offers this fresh series of sketches and impressions of Africa’s wild life, illustrated by 300 photographs or what Dr. Heck chooses to term “Nature documents.” The chapters reproduce in description and picture animals of jungle and plains, aiming to impress readers with the importance of taking active steps to prevent the complete extermination of wild life.
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“For the most part well written, and, we think, particularly well translated; the style is often narrative, which is specially attractive to young people, but besides tales of adventure there is much that deserves serious attention.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 476. O. 19. 620w.
“It brings the lives of African birds and beasts before us with almost startling accuracy. As a matter of fact, there is a wide divergence between title and text in this volume; the larger part of the text deals with matter entirely foreign to the title.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 371. D. 1, ’07. 510w.
“The power of the photograph in revealing the marvels of tropical scenery has never been so clearly demonstrated as in this volume, wherein the spirit of adventure is blent with the scientific spirit of investigation.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 760. N. 16, ’07. 440w.
“Mr. Whyte’s part in the preparation of this volume is admirably done. So easy is his style and so free from the traces of a foreign language that one hardly realizes that the writing is a translation.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 333. O. 10, ’07. 620w.
“It is a pity the text—though it contains much information and some really important matter—is not of commensurate worth. But Dr. Schillings is a photographer—not a writer.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 595. O. 5, ’07. 1380w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 637. N. ’07. 130w.
“The illustrations in this book are just as notable as those in ‘With flashlight and rifle.’ And the spirit of the book is the same.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 572. O. 19, ’07. 1550w.
=Schmid, Rudolf.= Scientific creed of a theologian; tr. from the 2nd German ed. by J. W. Stoughton. *$1.50. Armstrong.
A plea for a mutual understating between science and Christianity in which the author takes up successively “the subjects of Creation, Providence, Prayer, Miracles, and the Person of Jesus Christ, he argues that science and religion nowhere collide, and that the Christian view is entirely compatible with all proper claims of science, to which he makes large concessions.” (Outlook.)
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Reviewed by Charles R. Barnes.
=Am. J. Theol.= 11: 357. Ap. ’07. 450w.
“His book is mediating in a good sense of the word, and its pages inspire the reader with a feeling of confidence in the justice, if not always in the persuasiveness, of the writer’s intellect.” James Moffat.
+ =Hibbert J.= 5: 468. Ja. ’07. 720w.
=Ind.= 63: 516. Ag. 20, ’07. 60w.
“On the whole it is a useful book to credit to a country which has sent us too much of the contrary kind.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 377. F. 16, ’07, 190w.
“May be recommended as an admirable handbook on its subject.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1006. Je. 29, ’07. 410w.
=Schmidt, Ferdinand.= Gudrun, tr. from the German by George P. Upton. *60c. McClurg.
6–36031.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 22. Ja. ’07. ✠
=Schmidt, Ferdinand.= Herman and Thusnelda; tr. from the German, by George P. Upton. (Life stories for young people.) **60c. McClurg.
7–31226.
This story of the hero of Tuetoberg forest extends from his early days to his defeat of Varus, the Roman general, in that year which his victory has celebrated, 9 A.D., and to his union with Thusnelda, daughter of Segest. With the thrilling incidents of Herman’s life are side lights upon the customs and superstitions of the day.
=Schmidt, Johann Kaspar (Max Stirner, pseud.).= Ego and his own; tr. from the German by Steven T. Byington. $1.50. Tucker, B: R.
7–13485.
“The book ... is divided into two parts: first, The man; second, I.... Goethe’s ‘I place my all on nothing,’ ... is Stirner’s keynote to his egoistic symphony. His ego and not the family is the unit of the social life.... The world belong to all, but all are I. I alone am individual proprietor.... He repudiates all laws. Repudiates competition.... Socialism is a new god, a new abstraction to tyrannize over the ego.... Stirner was a foe to general ideas. He was an implacable realist.”—N. Y. Times.
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“What interests one in Stirner is not his argument, but his audacity. The book is involved and incoherent, and even curiosity to see what can be said by an _advocatus diaboli_ will not tempt many to read it.”
− =Ind.= 62: 1091. My. 9, ’07. 860w.
“The English translation of ‘The ego and his own’ is admirable; it is that of a philologist and a versatile scholar. Stirner’s form is open to criticism. It is vermicular. His thought is never confused, but he sees too many sides of his theme, embroiders it with so many variations, that he repeats himself. He has neither the crystalline brilliance nor poetic glamour of Nietzsche.” James Huneker.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 249. Ap. 20, ’07. 5430w.
“Max Stirner may shock, may amuse you. But he is bound to set you thinking.” James Huneker.
+ − =No. Am.= 185: 332. Je. 7, ’07. 2340w.
=Schmidt, Nathaniel.= Prophet of Nazareth. **$2.50. Macmillan.
5–39858.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is difficult to take Schmidt’s arguments seriously. A perusal of recent studies of the life of Jesus is an instructive discipline in the estimating of critical theories. Few of them, indeed, can be accused of the baseless extravagances which appear on the pages of Professor Schmidt.” H. A. A. Kennedy.
− =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 155. Ja. ’07. 930w.
“A very scholarly, scientific, and iconoclastic, yet reverent, volume.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 117. Je. ’07. 160w.
=Schnabel, Carl.= Handbook of metallurgy, tr. by Henry Louis. 2v. *$6.50. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in December, 1905.
“It will be seen that the criticisms made are all with the style and arrangement, rather the matter itself, which is copious and well and judiciously collected.” Bradley Stoughton.
+ − =Engin. N.= 57: 441. Ap. 18, ’07. 700w. (Review of v. 2)
“The description of the alloys is usually rather meagre, with curiously slight regard to the work of the last twenty years. In general, however, the information is full, accurate, and up to date, and is conveyed in a pleasant, readable manner.”
+ − =Nature.= 75: 486. Mr. 21, ’07. 270w. (Review of v. 2.)
=Schofield, Alfred Taylor.= Home life in order. $1.50. Funk.
“This book deals with the anatomy and physiology of the human body, the elements of hygiene, sick nursing, and first aid. It is written by one who has had a long and successful experience as a lecturer on all these subjects, and who is therefore able to speak with authority. The information conveyed is just of the right sort, and expressed in the simplest language.”—Ath.
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“A few strokes of the pen will easily remedy these small mistakes, and the book is good and trustworthy in every other respect.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 260. Mr. 2. 310w.
“As the work of a physician of eminence in London, it has scientific value, but its greater merit is the charmingly intimate and humane spirit in which it is written.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 98. Jl. 20, ’07. 80w.
“Filled with solid and reliable information useful to all who desire a knowledge of their physical nature and needs.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 258. Je. 1, ’07. 80w.
=Schofield, William Henry.= English literature, from the Norman conquest to Chaucer. *$1.50. Macmillan.
6–36418.
This is the first of a two-volume work covering the literary history of England from the Norman conquest to the time of Elizabeth. “The book differs in plan from the other volumes in the series, and indeed from most histories of English literature, in that the author does not deal with the whole production of each successive period. Instead, he treats his material according to the different ‘genres,’ tracing separately the evolution of each.... In the main division of the work—that which deals with English literature proper—the chapter on the romance takes the leading place.... The chapters on the tales, historical, religious, and didactic works, and lyrics in the vernacular, are thorough and adequate—like the excellent bibliography which concludes the work.” (Nation.)
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“Both the strength and the weakness of Prof. Schofield’s work may be expressed by saying that it is written from the point of view of a ‘Professor of comparative literature’ rather than from that of an expert in the special literature of Middle English.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 94. Ja. 26. 1540w.
“The shortcoming is not in scholarship, for the book is a marvel of labor both close and discursive, but in maturity.” Frank Jewett Mather, jr.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 617. Ag. ’07. 1670w.
“It offers an exceptionally thorough treatment of its period, done in the light of a scholarly tradition that runs from Gaston Paris to Child, and from Child to Professors Kittredge and Norton.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 115. F. 16, ’07. 260w.
“Whatever the merits of Professor Schofield’s book, it is not particularly clear or easy reading.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 452. Ag. 22, ’07. 540w.
“Tho of less interest to the general reader than to the special student, is to the latter fairly indispensable, in spite of its decided unevenness, as a contribution to the history of a period which has never been treated either quite thoroughly or satisfactorily.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 1230. N. 21, ’07. 80w.
“Mr. Schofield has not always succeeded in keeping the illusion of life and progress: we imagine that his work will be found more interesting as a book of reference than as a history to read through. The book is full of instruction, written with a delight in learning which comes out more clearly the more the argument is tested,”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 11. Ja. 11, ’07. 1240w.
“In literary execution there is considerable unevenness. Parts are admirably written; for example, the introduction, distinguished by its freshness of treatment and breadth of view, the general discussion of the matter of Britain, and the chapter on religious works. On the other hand, the style, as we have intimated, betrays lassitude in the concluding sections of the chapter on romance and in some pages of the chapter on Anglo-Latin literature. On the whole, however, the work is excellent.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 443. N. 22, ’06. 1530w.
“To most readers the most interesting part will be the romance, Arthurian and other; but whatever the subject it will be found adequately treated.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 792. N. 17, ’07. 230w.
=Scholl, John William.= Ode to the Russian people. $1. Badger, R. G.
7–10040.
An ode to Russia’s millions which cries not only “evolution” but “revolution.”
=Scholz, R. F., and Hornbeck, S. K.= Oxford and the Rhodes scholarships; with list of Rhodes scholars and other information complete to the end of January, 1907. *85c. Oxford.
7–26974.
Information of a statistical nature required by those who contemplate trying for a Rhodes scholarship.
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+ =Nation.= 84: 264. Mr. 21, ’07. 50w.
“A useful little volume.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 337. Mr. 2, ’07. 160w.
=Schuen, Rev. Joseph.= Outlines of sermons for young men and young women. *$2. Benziger.
6–23286.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“They treat important topics in a practical fashion suited to the needs of the people.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 548. Ja. ’07. 90w.
=Schultz, James Willard.= My life as an Indian: the story of a red woman and a white man in the lodges of the Blackfeet; il. from photographs mostly by George B. Grinnell. **$1.50. Doubleday.
7–6737.
“An intimate revelation of the domestic life of the Blackfoot Indians by a man who married into the tribe and lived many years with them. Reads like a romance from beginning to end, not the least interesting part of it being the traditions and bits of old stories retold by the author with simplicity and real charm. Published originally as a serial in ‘Forest and stream,’ under the title of ‘In the lodges of the Blackfeet’ and the pseudonym W. B. Anderson.”—A. L. A. Bkl.
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+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 105. Ap. ’07. S.
“The value of the book is its record of a state of society which has now passed.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 787. Je. 29. 280w.
“The author has inherited the Indian’s native eloquence along with his tastes and ideals, and his story is one of the most authoritative and interesting revelations of Indian life that we have seen.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 470. Mr. 23, ’07. 330w.
“This trader is evidently plagued, like many others, by the presence of a secondary personality under imperfect control. His narrative is perpetually disturbed by the emergence of an invader, an unclean spirit in the shape of a literary person, a lover of the heroic, the romantic, the Arcadian, quite a gifted literary person too.”
+ =Lond. Times.= 6: 222. Jl. 12, ’07. 970w.
“Through the straightforward and unaffected manner in which he pictures his life, the reader learns more about the nature of the Indians among whom Mr. Schultz has lived than in the most elaborate scientific treatises.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 339. Ap. 11, ’07. 220w.
“Should be widely circulated, if only to correct mistaken impressions of what the Indians were before the buffalo disappeared; and what they still may be under the guidance of honest and generous Indian agents.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 125. Mr. 2, ’07. 490w.
“There are all sorts of humorous and other anecdotes, told in a literary manner.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 426. Jl. ’07. 130w.
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 304. S. 7, ’07. 730w.
“Furnish the truest and most sympathetic records of the inner and domestic life of the Indian of the plains.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 134. Jl. 27. ’07. 350w.
* =Schurz, Carl.= Reminiscences of Carl Schurz. il. 2v. **$6. McClure.
7–36232.
Reminiscences that are important for their German-American quality. “There are two characteristics of this attractive autobiography which should commend it to the study of the general reader. It is in the first place the account of an individual brought up with all the advantages of German education, amid all the associations of monarchism, and with prospects of success in his own country, whose convictions and predilections drove him into the arms of American republicanism.... In the second place, it throws a new light on the events of recent American history.” (Lit. D.)
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“With the externals of this work one might easily pick a few quarrels. Either the proofreading has been lamentably careless in a considerable number of instances, or else bad editorial judgment has religiously followed mere slips of the pen in the original manuscript. All this, however, cannot seriously detract from the value of the really great biographical works of recent years.” W. H. Johnson.
+ + − =Dial.= 43: 413. D. 16, ’07. 2320w.
“The whole character of the work is one of frank and easy self-revelation. It is full of personal anecdote, personal adventure, personal opinion. Those who take it up are not likely to put it aside until they have read the whole of it, and, indeed, it is well worth reading both as a source of interest and an inspiration.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 876. D. 7, ’07. 950w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14, ’07. 120w.
“They throw much light on the stormy politics of the time, on the characters and attainments of the leaders on either side, and on the temper and methods of party action. It is not too much to say that Lincoln cannot fully be known without this study.” Edward Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 832. D. 14, ’07. 1900w.
“To most of us this book reveals a new phase in his character in that it is pervaded with a gentle humor, with a shrewd discrimination as to men’s character and motives, and a power of direct and forcible narration which is rare indeed. The work will take a high place in the literature of biography and reminiscence.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 613. N. 23, ’07. 230w.
“He enjoyed intimate personal acquaintance with a remarkably large number of American soldiers and statesmen. For that reason and because of the clarity and grace of his literary style these volumes of reminiscences by Mr. Schurz are of surpassing interest.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 36: 753. D. ’07. 250w.
* =Schuster, Ernest Joseph.= Principles of German civil law. *$4.15. Oxford.
7–26411.
Here Dr. Schuster has presented to English readers the entire private or civil law of the German empire. “The immediate and practical purpose of the book is to aid the English lawyer in dealing with conflicts of law; and for this reason the German rules of international private law are set forth and compared with the English in connection with the matters in which choice of law has most often to be made. The author’s chief purpose, however, is ... to aid in placing the study of the English law on a higher plane.” (Pol. Sci. Q.)
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“This is an admirable book, well calculated to promote the serious study of comparative law and to give a trustworthy account of the great work accomplished by the juridical science of Germany. He has carried out his purpose with great acuteness and learning.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 130. Ap. 26, ’07. 1370w.
“Dr. Schuster has done his work so well that his book is to be recommended to English, American and German lawyers. In helping Anglo-American and German lawyers to understand one another Dr. Schuster has not only facilitated the exchange of useful ideas, but has enabled the lawyers of each country to gain a better understanding of their own technical terms.” Rudolph Leonhard.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 723. D. ’07. 530w.
“One of the most useful of studies for the young lawyer whose interest in law is not yet confined to turning up books for his cases, would be to read Mr. Schuster’s admirable book.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: 212. Ag. 17, ’07. 220w.
=Schuyler, Montgomery.= Westward the course of empire: “out West” and “back East” on the first trip of the Los Angeles limited; reprinted with additions from the N. Y. Times. **$1.25. Putnam.
6–42436.
An account of a trip across the continent in less than a fortnight, to which the author has added under the head of “Consideration by the way,” four suggestive chapters upon: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, and Triumphant democracy.
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“Writes philosophically and out of a full mind.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 106. Ja. 19, ’07. 80w.
=Putnam’s.= 2: 119. Ap. ’07. 160w.
=Schuyler, William=, tr. and ed. Under Pontius Pilate. †$1.50. Funk.
6–36184.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It is all done reverently enough, and can be read; but there is an effort at modernization in the attitude of the characters, and in the style there is more than one elapse of taste.”
+ − =Nation.= 83: 464. N. 29, ’06. 240w.
“Considering the perennial interest of the subject and the skill and discretion of this treatment, one would expect for ‘Under Pontius Pilate’ a success, from the publisher’s point of view, by no means likely to exhaust itself with the season of the first publication.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 886. D. 22. ’06. 1130w.
=Scollard, Clinton.= Easter-song; lyrics and ballads of the joy of springtime. $3.50. George W. Browning, Clinton, N. Y.
6–11539.
A collection of half a hundred lyrics and ballads, all of which sing of the gladness which comes in “The green o’ the year.”
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Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
=Dial.= 42: 253. Ap. 16, ’07. 180w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 431. Jl. 6, ’07. 270w.
“It is gentle April verse, not riotous nor riant ... full of delicate perception and expression.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 121. Ap. ’07. 200w.
=Scott, Dixon.= Liverpool. il. (Color books ser.) *$2.50. Macmillan.
Liverpool is described by Mr. Scott and pictured by J. Hamilton Hay. It is “an attempt to mirror the vital aspect which the city presents to the world today rather than to offer a rechauffé of the past.”
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“The plates in colour are far above those usually found in books of this series, and while not doing full justice to Mr. Hay’s powers, they at least attest the quality of his colour and the purity of its application. Mr. Scott’s style, unlike his Liverpool, though ‘variegated and distracted,’ fails to be ‘puissant and concerted.’”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 840. Ag. 31, ’07. 760w.
“We cannot call the book a success, for it conveys nothing very definite to the mind of the reader.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 308. S. 14. 810w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The book is somewhat fatiguing. Sometimes, too, it lapses into something that a hostile observer might call silliness.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 370. S. 14, ’07. 400w.
=Scott, Ernest F.= Fourth gospel: its purpose and theology. *$2. Scribner.
7–36975.
A work which “is wholly concerned with the literary form, the purpose, and the theology of ‘John.’... A twofold purpose is seen in it; primarily, the expression of a profound personal religion, and at the same time the adjustment of it intellectually to a new age and environment, in the reconciliation of Hebraic with Hellenic ideas.”—Outlook.
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“Thoughtful and stimulating book.” James S. Riggs.
+ + =Am. J. Theol.= 11: 535. Jl. ’07. 1280w.
=Ath.= 1907, 1: 437. Ap. 13. 760w.
“A thorough study.”
+ =Bib. World.= 29: 239. Mr. ’07. 50w.
“Perhaps it is best to take Mr. Scott as he has taken John (whether rightly remains to be seen)—a combination of streams of thought which can hardly be harmonized, and which leads to inconsistencies of thinking and direct contradictions of expression.” Frank Grant Lewis.
+ − =Bib. World.= 30: 235. S. ’07. 1180w.
“A more complete and enlightening presentation of the Johannine theology has not been produced in recent years, and to one who would work his way into the thought and spirit of the fourth gospel no better guide could be recommended.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 452. Ag. 22, ’07. 270w.
“The most valuable treatise on the Gospel of John that has appeared in recent years.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1235. N. 21, ’07. 100w.
“It is the merit of Mr. Scott both to have made clear the profitable line of study in connection with the Gospel of John, and also to have exhibited some valuable results of endeavor of this sort.”
+ + =Nation.= 84: 315. Ap. 4, ’07. 540w.
“This is a fresh work of the first rank among the many on its subject.”
+ + =Outlook.= 85: 281. F. 2, ’07. 450w.
“We think that it is hardly possible for the case to be put more fully, more clearly, or more temperately than in the volume before us; and though we may disagree with its arguments and conclusions we cannot but admire the admirable way in which they are presented.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 104: 304. S. 7, ’07. 1410w.
=Scott, G. Firth.= Romance of polar exploration; interesting descriptions of Arctic and Antarctic adventure from the earliest time to the voyage of the “Discovery.” *$1.50. Lippincott.
6–35304.
This book ably sustains the claim of its title. It gives the story of the explorations toward both poles in a fashion not only interesting but historically exact.
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“Is a slight affair, milk for babes.” E. T. Brewster.
− =Atlan.= 100: 261. Ag. ’07. 40w.
“We may compare Mr. Scott’s book on polar exploration with the original records, and it will stand the test. It covers both the arctic and antarctic regions, and may be commended to any reader as a compilation that tells in a way that interests the story of many leading incidents in polar research.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 846. D. 8, ’06. 50w.
=Sat. R.= 102: sup. 10. D. 8, ’06. 40w.
+ =Spec.= 97: sup. 657. N. 2, ’06. 180w.
=Scott, John Reed.= Beatrix of Clare. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–18101.
England in the time of Richard III, forms the setting for this tale of romance and adventure which takes place close about the throne. Beatrix, beauty, heiress, and countess of Clare is won by the young knight and courtier De Lacy beneath the friendly smiles of both king and queen, while their love affair is troubled by abduction and bloodshed, and influenced by the great events which stir the kingdom and even threaten the crown.
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“Rather better than the average of its kind.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 204. N. ’07.
“Done with a freshness and a verve that makes one forgive the familiar situations, and well-worn devices, and for an idle hour quite enjoy the knight’s tempestuous wooing of his wilful lady.”
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 602. Ag. ’07. 320w.
“In manner and sentiment is poor stuff, and about as unreal as possible.” Wm. M. Payne.
− =Dial.= 43: 63. Ag. 1, ’07. 130w.
“The book abounds in royal gossip.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 402. Ag. 15, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
“It is a good story, as historical romances go.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 525. Ag. 31, ’07. 820w.
+ =Outlook.= 86: 833. Ag. 17, ’07. 110w.
=Scott, John Reed.= Colonel of the Red huzzars. †$1.50. Lippincott.
6–21386.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The story is impossible but more readable than most, and it is well printed and illustrated, full of bright dialogue, and has for heroine the most outrageous flirt since Rosalind.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 192. F. 23, ’07. 140w.
=Scott, Leroy.= To him that hath. †$1.50. Doubleday.
7–23303.
“The story turns on the heroic self-sacrifice of a young man, David Aldrich, who, at the death of his best friend, the Rev. Philip Morton, finds out that the latter was hopelessly in the toils of an adventuress, who had blackmailed him out of $5,000.... Aldrich assumes the theft himself and goes to prison for four years.... It is a tract on prison discipline, the reformation of the criminal, the uplifting, physical, mental and moral of the masses, and the greed of wealth, thinly veneered with ‘heart interest.’”—N. Y. Times.
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“It is the simple directness of the narrative, as well as the reality of the types depicted, that holds you to the end.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 164. O. ’07. 310w.
“The plot of the novel is forced ... and the action is over melodramatic, but it is a particularly striking production for all that, and its essential pathos is relieved by much subsidiary incident, and even by touches of genuine humor.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 253. O. 16, ’07. 310w.
“Mr. Scott is a hero worshiper of martyred manhood among the poor and unfortunate, a writer who compels admiration and attention by his friendliness to the friendless and by the sanity of his conclusions concerning some sociological problems, rather than by literary ability.”
+ − =Ind.= 63: 817. O. 3, ’07. 620w.
“Far more important than its literary merit implies.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 1227. N. 21, ’07. 60w.
“It is written with much effort and earnestness; and it is fairly entertaining. The author is not without a sense of humor. But when all is said, fiction makes a poor appearance in the pulpit; and most books of this sort are neither good stories nor good sermons.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 540w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“That which gives Mr. Scott’s book the vitality and strength which it unquestionably possesses is his ability to make one see these luckless types ... as his hero saw them.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 44. S. 7, ’07. 450w.
“It is good story-telling genius to get theory into the reader without his knowing it.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 3: 238. N. ’07. 710w.
=Scott, M. H. Baillie.= Houses and gardens. *$12. Scribner.
7–33972.
“We have here the fruits of an exceptionally wide and varied experience in the planning, decoration and equipment of houses of all dimensions, from small week-end cottages to large country houses both in England and abroad. This volume testifies eloquently to the fact that, besides being an architect equipped with an ample fund of scientific knowledge, Mr. Scott is also an artist possessing a mature understanding of the proper relations of use and beauty; and the aim of this work is to show what possibilities of beauty are present in the construction of a house.”—Int. Studio.
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“In many ways this is a surprising volume. Its most striking feature is the skill of the draughtsmanship, particularly in the coloured plates. Much of it is well written, with eloquent passages and not a few well-turned epigrams, but more is equally dull, with the same idea reiterated in chapter after chapter in almost identical words.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 704. Je. 8. 360w.
“It is to be hoped that a valuable treatise such as this will meet with that wide recognition which it deserves.”
+ + =Int. Studio.= 31: 83. Mr. ’07. 200w.
“There is, on the whole, so much of good suggestion; of good taste, and of common sense in the book, that one easily overlooks minor deficiencies.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 106. Ag. 1, ’07. 730w.
=Scott, Sir Walter.= Quentin Durward; ed. by R. W. Bruere. *50c. Ginn.
7–7198.
An edition designed for the use of high schools and academies. It is equipped with ample editorial helps.
=Scratton, Howell.= Fortuna filly. $1.50. Luce, J: W.
The Fortuna filly is a horse of rare promise and this story, while it is a romance, centers about the race track and the training stables, and concerns races and trainers so exclusively that the love affair of the owner’s daughter and the young lawyer who in the end wins his wife and a fortune on the Fortuna filly, is thrust into the background.
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“Food, drink, and horse are the delightful ingredients of this innocent idyl.”
− =Nation.= 85: 58. Jl. 18, ’07. 570w.
=Scripture, Edward Wheeler.= Researches in experimental phonetics; the study of speech curves. (Carnegie inst. of Washington. Pub. no. 44.) pa. $2. Carnegie inst.
7–2321.
“The groundwork of the results of Dr. Scripture’s recent work abroad, in the laboratories organized at Munich, Berlin and Zurich. Save for illustrative examples from the records, the present volume deals almost exclusively with methods; nearly all of the last fifty pages are taken up with tables, some of which appear for the first time, and should prove most helpful to other investigators along these lines.”—Science.
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=Ind.= 63: 223. Jl. 25, ’07. 420w.
“We congratulate Dr. Scripture on the production of a splendid monograph. It might have been improved by fuller bibliographical details, and perhaps by a more adequate recognition of the work of others.” John G. McKendrick.
+ + − =Nature.= 75: 392. F. 21, ’07. 2530w.
“Perhaps the main objection to the work is that the correctness of the original gramophone records has been taken too much on faith.” Frederic Lyman Wells.
+ + − =Science=, n.s. 26: 170. Ag. 9, ’07. 740w.
=Scudder, Vida Dutton.= Disciple of a saint: being the imaginary biography of Raniero di Landoccio dei Pagliaresi. $1.50. Dutton.
W 7–125.
“This ‘imaginary biography’ of Neri di Landoccio, secretary of Saint Catherine of Siena is ... a book full of human interest.... Of story, in the ordinary sense, except such as is furnished by the background of actual recorded events, there is little.... The drama is a drama of ‘soul-states.’ Yet, if the chief interest is psychological, this is not through inability on the part of the author to present the material side of things: Siena in the throes of the plague-epidemic and the papal court at Avignon are vividly set before the reader.”—Ath.
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“The author’s familiarity with her period is pleasantly apparent, and her characters, although they speak a language happily free from deliberate archaisms, fairly represent their century.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 659. Je. 1. 240w.
“Perhaps, despite the author’s deft allusions and unmistakable accuracy, the historian will not be content.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 85: 825. S. ’07. 710w.
“A noteworthy success in a most difficult form of writing. In the dialogue, the most difficult part of an historical romance, Miss Scudder has achieved a distinct success. Her diction, however, is at times decidedly overstrained.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 567. Je. 20, ’07, 640w.
“All through the exquisitely elaborated story there are a reserve, a dignity of expression, and a comprehension of the required attitude of mind that are refreshing to the thoughtful reader.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 117. My. 18, ’07. 160w.
Sea stories, retold from St. Nicholas. (Geographical stories.) *65c. Century.
7–29583.
Jack London, Güstav Kobbé, George Kennan, Tudor Jenks and a good many others tell of exciting sea-happenings with a good bit of general information about divers, light-houses, tidal waves, etc.
=Seabrook, Phœbe Hamilton.= Daughter of the Confederacy: a story of the old South and the new. $1.50. Neale.
6–43778.
“Unlike the majority of novels of the war period, this one does not dwell upon the horrors of camp and field, of prison and hospital, but upon the daily life of a family left to the so-called slighter horrors of inactivity, anxiety and starvation.”
=Seaver, Richard W.= To Christ through criticism. (Donellan lectures, 1905–6.) **$1.50. Scribner.
The burden of these lectures is “Justification of the new theology and defence of critical principles and results as not hostile to devout life.” (Nation.)
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“A reverent and thoughtful discussion of the Gospel miracles in the light of modern criticism.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 390. Mr. 14, ’07. 40w.
=Nation.= 84: 265. Mr. 21, ’07. 100w.
=Seawell, Molly Elliott.= Loves of the lady Arabella. †$1.50. Bobbs:
6–36177.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A readable enough little tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 62. F. 2, ’07. 500w.
“This old-fashioned romance, with its familiar types and conventional action, is charming because of its literary style and generally artistic workmanship. Mr. Underwood’s illustrations are a little stiff, and crude in color.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 30w.
=Seawell, Molly Elliott.= Secret of Toni; il. by George Brehm. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–5687.
“The story of a dirty, lazy, little boy whose only friends are a nice clean little boy and a tin soldier to whom he tells all his trouble. The boys grow up as friends, and both become soldiers who have ups and downs enough to interest the reader to the happy end.”—A. L. A. Bkl.
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“The plot is absurd, but there is a certain freshness about it that many fiction readers will enjoy.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 79. Mr. ’07. ✠
“A rather thin, unsubstantial little tale. But ... one feels no resentment toward it, for the childhood portion is really quite enjoyable.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ − =Bookm.= 25: 90. Mr. ’07. 270w.
“Toni, the hero of the present novel, need not fear comparison with any of the cherub group that we heretofore have met in Miss Seawell’s pages.”
+ =Lit. D.= 34: 548. Ap. 6, ’07. 310w.
“A sprightly story, well constructed and vivaciously told. Notwithstanding the numerous books which Miss Seawell has written, she has not yet learned what literary virtues are to be gained by an occasional due reserve of statement.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 99. F. 16, ’07. 270w.
=Sedgwick, Anne Douglas.= Fountain sealed. †$1.50. Century.
7–30436.
A character study of three distinct types. A mother whose peace of mind was constantly assailed by a selfish husband exploiting all the proprieties of life decides to live apart from him. She goes abroad and makes a cozy drawingroom the center of a warmth which she radiates after the fashion of her own serenity, sincerity and dignity. The daughter, devoted to the father, furnishes the second type. At his death the mother returns to find her daughter an arrogant, selfish, heartless girl unable to detect values. The third type is honest Jack Pennington whose integrity but reveals more convincingly the girl’s shallowness and the mother’s patient unselfishness.
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“The workmanship is excellent and to those readers who enjoy a ruthless dissection, skilfully done, the book will be worth while. Of plot there is scarcely anything.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 204. N. ’07.
“The best of many good qualities is the spirit in which it is written. A finished piece of true comedy.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 341. N. 8, ’07. 550w.
“The plain citizen, the clamorer for a simple story, will not take kindly to ‘A fountain sealed.’ On the other hand, the reader who is attracted by the subtle in style and substance, who likes a maximum of soul-searching with a minimum of ‘scene,’ will find it a mine of interest, and will have the further satisfaction of perceiving that a novel may deal with the subtleties, yet be unquestionably clean.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 446. N. 14, ’07. 580w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“It is such a moving, vivid, illuminating picture of the kind of tragedy that everywhere dignifies human life, that it can but make a wide appeal.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 694. N. 2, ’07. 560w.
“It will add to Miss Sedgwick’s already secure reputation, and give much real pleasure to thoughtful readers.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 450. O. 26, ’07. 340w.
“Its admirable character-drawing, and its distinction of style, will add to a reputation already secure.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 40w.
“Well-wrought and engrossing story.”
+ + − =Spec.= 99: 780. N. 16, ’07. 1200w.
=Sedgwick, Mrs. Mabel (Cabot).= Garden month by month. **$4. Stokes.
7–15329.
A new plan is employed in this practical volume. “On each page there are six vertical columns under the month in which the flower blossoms. The first column gives the color, the next the English name, the next the botanical name, the next the description and method of culture, propagation and origin, and then the height and situation in the garden, and finally, the duration of the blooming. These are illustrated by over 200 ... engravings from photographs of growing plants.” (Ind.)
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“The index is full and carefully made. Altogether. this is a most valuable book for the shelves devoted to one’s garden library, in a location handy for reference.” Edith Granger.
+ =Dial.= 42: 368. Je. 16, ’07. 590w.
“There is in it no nonsense of fine writing and poetical quotations.”
+ =Ind.= 62: 972. Ap. 25, ’07. 130w.
“We should suppose it might remain a standard for many years.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 132. Jl. 27, ’07. 110w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 547. D. 12, ’07. 110w.
“It is an intelligent and amplified catalogue of the plants described, and its painstaking sincerity and infinite care of detail should give it a place on the reference shelf of garden books.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 236. Ap. 13, ’07. 1060w.
“The beginner in this delightful pursuit would probably find some of the simpler and less exhaustive garden books more helpful and not so bewildering.”
+ − =Outlook.= 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 200w.
=Segur, Marquis de.= Julie de Lespinasse; tr. from the French by P. H. Lee Warner. *$2.50. Holt.
7–37963.
The letters of Mademoiselle de Lespinasse not only form a human document that reveals a tortured existence but are a symbol of the revolution accomplished in contemporary thought during her period, viz., “the change of the age of reason into the age of passion and sentimental license.” The author had access to archives heretofore unattainable which cleared up facts regarding the early life of Mademoiselle Lespinasse, her education, relations with the Marquis de Mora, and the public and worldly side of her character. The sketch embodies its negative lesson chiefly in this intense woman’s blind adoration for Count de Guibert. Her suffering strikes the universal note, and she pays the full retributive price for her wrong-doing.
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“The book is a model of wise biography. The translation is on the whole, good and clear; but it is marred by occasional lapses which should certainly be amended before the second edition is produced.”
+ + − =Acad.= 72: 265. Mr. 16, ’07. 770w.
“[The translation] is characterized ... by inelegance, and not infrequently by mis-representation of the original.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 177. Ag. 17. 190w.
“At last we have an authoritative, and, it would seem, a definitive life of that most interesting [Julie de Lespinasse].” S. M. Francis.
+ + =Atlan.= 100: 491. O. ’07. 280w.
“The Marquis de Segur has brought enough personal interest and enthusiasm to his work to counteract largely his lack of constructive literary ability.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 67. Ag. 1, ’07. 360w.
“Though ample and interesting, contributes but little of real weight to a familiar story.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 503. Je. 30, ’07. 420w.
“Probably comes as near telling the truth about this remarkable woman as any sentimental biography written long after the death of the subject can be expected to come.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 285. My. 4, ’07. 1100w.
=Outlook.= 86: 480. Je. 29, ’07. 300w.
“More than one book has been written around her, but this simple record of her life by the Marquis de Segur is by far the most interesting of them all.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =Putnam’s.= 2: 475. Jl. ’07. 80w.
“This book was really worth translating.”
+ =Sat. R.= 103: 372. Mr. 23, ’07. 110w.
=Seignobos, (Michel Jean) Charles.= History of ancient civilization; tr. and ed. by Arthur Herbert Wilde. *$1.25. Scribner.
6–32375.
=v. 1.= An English version of a well-known French text book designed for use in secondary schools. Volume 1 covers a period from pre-historic times down to the third century of our era.
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=Am. Hist. R.= 11: 957. Jl. ’06. 30w. (Review of v. 1.)
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 72. Mr. ’07. (Review of v. 1.)
“Is the most satisfactory history of civilization that has yet appeared.” J. W. Moncrief.
+ + + =Bib. World.= 30: 238. S. ’07. 320w. (Review of v. 1.)
“A plain straightforward account.... The translation seems to have been carefully made, and the editor’s notes, though not numerous, are of distinct value. Nevertheless, the book is something of a disappointment. In his effort to cover the entire field the author has naturally been compelled to include a great deal that is already found in the high-school text-book.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 47. Ja. 16, ’07. 260w. (Review of v. 1.)
“It is a sorry, dry-as-dust, uninteresting, and unprofitable compilation.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 520. O. 26, ’07. 100w. (Review of v. 1.)
=Seitz, Don Carlos.= Discoveries in every-day Europe. **$1.25. Harper.
7–29537.
Little details that eminate from the store of a traveler’s latent impressions, the sort that fill the chinks of the memory but that are seldom offered to the stay-at-home tourist. In his shrewdly observant fashion, entertainingly humorous, the author tells the reader things worth remembering, and things that can be remembered for their very epigrammatic clearness. For instance, he says, “Ice is regarded with superstitious reverence in Italy, France and England. Common waiters are not allowed to touch the precious product. Instead, the head waiter hands it out in infinitesimal fragments with a pair of sugar-tongs.” The marginal illustrations are suggestive of the book’s humor.
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“The ordinary reader will find in it a great deal more about Europe that would interest him than he gets in the usual ponderous book of travel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 642. O. 19, ’07. 160w.
“Alert, humorous, and irrepressible.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
=Seligman, Edwin Robert Anderson.= Principles of economics; with special reference to American conditions. 2d ed. *$2.25. Longmans.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In the present reviewer’s opinion, Professor Seligman’s volume is likely to prove of more value to the teacher of economics than to the beginner in the subject for whose benefit primarily it was written. This is not because of any lack of clearness or other defects of style. It is due rather to the fact that the author has attempted to cover too much ground and to introduce the student to too great a variety of subjects.” M. B. Hammond.
+ + − =Dial.= 42: 36. Ja. 16, ’07. 2910w.
=Selleck, Willard Chamberlain.= New appreciation of the Bible: a study of the spiritual outcome of Biblical criticism. *$1.50. Univ. of Chicago press.
7–11195.
An attempt to popularize some of the results of scholarship. It aims to do three things: first, to state, briefly but clearly and accurately the principal conclusions of modern learning regarding the Bible; second, to show the enhanced values, ethical and religious, which the Bible exhibits thru the new views of its nature thus developed, and lastly, to point out practical ways in which it may be used in consonance with such conclusions and such views.
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“A most useful and valuable book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 105. F. ’07. S.
=Bib. World.= 29: 159. F. ’07. 90w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 390. F. 14, ’07. 50w.
“Readers of his careful chapters will have little to unlearn if they pursue their studies further.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 222. Mr. 7, ’07. 210w.
“The book is an excellent combination of the conservative spirit with the radical method in a constructive treatment of its subject.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 282. F. 2, ’07. 180w.
=Selous, Frederick Courteney.= Recent hunting trips in British North America. *$5. imp. Scribner.
“Mr. Selous divides his book into short chapters, each dealing with an expedition to various parts of the country. Thus he begins with a moose hunt in the forests of Central Canada, goes on to Newfoundland after woodland caribou, and visits St. John’s lake, the Macmillan river, Yukon territory, and other places, finding sport, and adding trophies to what must be one of the largest collections ever made by a single person.” (Ath.) “One last chapter is devoted to outfit, food, etc., all excellent practical hints.” (Nation.)
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“Is sure of a cordial welcome for many reasons.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 122. Ag. 3. 680w.
Reviewed by H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 43: 212. O. 1, ’07. 630w.
“There is one quality about all Selous’s books which will win the attention of his readers: he is preeminently honest and sincere. There is no fine writing, no exaggeration: all his descriptions of adventures bear the hall-mark of truth.”
+ + =Nation.= 85: 189. Ag. ’07. 1340w.
“The book at large, while, of course, of much more interest to the British (or American) sportsman than to the casual reader whose tastes have not been developed that way, has a good deal, of the charm of its kind.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 482. Ag. 3, ’07. 760w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“Mr. Selous’s account of his daily doings is a plain, straightforward narrative which will be invaluable to those who follow him, into these northern wilds. He also gives much interesting information about the aspect of the country, the fauna, the habits of beavers, the races of wild sheep in North America, and the big game generally.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 366. S. 14, ’07. 520w.
* =Seneca, Lucius Annæus.= Tragedies of Seneca; tr. into English verse, to which have been appended comparative analyses of the corresponding Greek and Roman plays, and a mythological index. by Frank Justus Miller. *$3. Univ. of Chicago press.
Aside from the fact that Seneca’s tragedies serve as the only connecting link between ancient and modern tragedy, the plays are of value and interest as independent dramatic literature of merit, and also as an illustration of the literary characteristics of the age of Nero. The author has aimed to present to the English reader all of the values accruing from a study of these plays except the benefit to be derived from reading them in the original.
* =Sergeant, Philip Walsingham.= Last empress of the French. **$3.50. Lippincott.
A contribution to history. “The book begins, as careful biographies should begin, with a due account of Eugénie’s grandparents, leading up to the birth of Eugénie, her early days, and eventual marriage with Napoleon III., through the machinations of her mother and the help of her own beauty.” (Acad.)
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“The present book is a painstaking collection of facts about the life of the Empress Eugénie, written without enthusiasm and without distinction. From one point of view it is an improving book, from another a very blasphemy against that most mysterious, most sacred of all things—life.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 841. Ag. 31, ’07. 960w.
“If not treated as history may be commended.”
+ =Ath.= 1907. 2: 208. Ag. 24. 910w.
“Agreeably written, clearly printed, and handsomely illustrated, the book is worthy of its subject. It shows, too, care and painstaking research in its preparation; but one might have expected that the restraint imposed upon the biography by the Empress Eugénie’s being still alive would have been offset by the advantage of some little help from her in the clearing up of certain obscurities in her eventful history.”
+ − =Dial.= 43: 420. D. 16, ’07. 410w.
“The book is well done, and the portraits and views are well selected.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 917. D. 14. ’07. 90w.
“It is, as may be supposed, a difficult subject which Mr. Sergeant has elected to treat; and he must be allowed the credit of having accomplished his task with success.”
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 753. N. 16, ’07. 180w.
=Seton, Grace Gallatin Thompson (Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton).= Nimrod’s wife. **$1.75. Doubleday.
7–18186.
An account of the author’s life in the open while accompanying her artist-author husband on his trips in search of copy rather than game. Many interesting feminine side lights are thrown upon experiences of camp and travel while there is much good advice to women as to proper dress and equipment.
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“This is a book to read; if you like books about hunting, without any adventures which give a distinct thrill.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 107. N. 9, ’07. 250w.
“Written in a spirited manner, pervaded by enthusiasm for outdoor life, a love of adventure, and a cheerful, wholesome philosophy.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 181. O. ’07.
“It is bright, unconventional narrative, and would be better if the writing were more coherent and less ‘highfalutin.’ But it is agreeable enough.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 617. N. 16. 130w.
“Offers another study of feminine self-consciousness, superimposed, in this instance, upon a perverted and, and at times, amusingly naïve hero-worship.” George Gladden.
− =Bookm.= 25: 623. Ag. ’07. 140w.
“We can unreservedly praise her for her quick wit and catching humor, for her thorough-going sportsman-like manner, and for the literary graces of good composition.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 43: 212. O. 1, ’07. 380w.
“The views of Nimrod’s wife partake still of the charm of comparative novelty.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
“Certainly with safety and entire truthfulness it may be affirmed of Mrs. Thompson Seton’s animal anecdotes that they are at least good reading—and that in these intimate and formal records of camp life and travel she has so well preserved the atmosphere of close companionship with woods and waters that, even to the uninitiated, what is after all the chief charm of sport with gun and rod is made quite clear.”
+ =Outlook.= 86: 476. Je. 29, ’07. 210w.
Seven sages of Rome, ed. from the manuscripts with introduction, notes and glossary, by Killis Campbell. *$2.25. Ginn.
7–5077.
Besides the text, which follows the Cotton MS., this volume, one of the “Albion series of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English poetry,” contains an exhaustive introduction which discusses the early history of The seven sages, the Oriental, European, and English versions, and gives a list of originals and analogues. Full notes, a glossary and index complete the volume.
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“We congratulate Prof. Campbell on the skill and care displayed in this edition, which students of ‘comparative literature’ will find of great use.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 536. My. 4. 370w.
“The text is an important one in the history of stories and a new edition was obviously needed. This want has just been supplied in a thoroughly satisfactory manner by Prof. Killis Campbell.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 454. My. 16, ’07. 280w.
=Severy, Melvin Linwood.= Gillette’s social redemption. Il. **$2.50. Turner, H. B.
7–18591.
A review of world-wide conditions as they exist to-day, offering an entirely new suggestion for the remedy of the evils they exhibit. Mr. Severy but gives expression to Mr. Gillette’s ingenious plan for the amelioration of the ever-increasing ills of the existing social system,—a plan which combines the best of the single tax scheme, the best of socialism with the best part of our present system as it exists to-day.
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“Sensational ‘stories’ from daily newspapers, even of the ‘yellow’ type, are seriously treated as historical materials, without rational criticism. All the muckrakers are here invited to unload their unsavory burdens, and the result is a sort of literary dumping-ground.” Charles Richmond Henderson.
− =Dial.= 43: 250. O. 16, ’07. 190w.
“One could wish, however, for less material and a better sorting of what is used.”
− =Ind.= 63: 1177. N. 14, ’07. 250w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 490. O. 5, ’07. 410w.
“It may be that some of the world’s scandals are omitted from this large and handsome book, of whose paper and print it is possible to speak well.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 348. Je. 1, ’07. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 125. Jl. ’07. 160w.
=Sewell, Tyson.= Construction of dynamos, (alternating and direct current): a textbook for students, engineer-constructors, and electricians-in-charge. *$3. Van Nostrand.
A text-book for students and apprentices in electrical engineering as well as helpful to civil, mechanical and other engineers. The earlier chapters are devoted to an exposition of the fundamental principles of direct and single phase alternating currents, and their bearing on the subject, of dynamos; the effects of polyphase currents being treated later on as an introduction to polyphase alternators.
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“A great deal of good information is given, but there is a lack of perspective the reader being left in doubt as to what is the standard practice.” Henry H. Norris.
+ − =Engin. N.= 58: 423. O. 17, ’07. 370w.
“A perusal of Mr. Sewell’s book will leave the reader with the impression that the designer of dynamos will learn nothing from it, and that the student may with equal advantage read any of the previous publications treating of the dynamo in a popular style.” Gisbert Kapp.
+ − =Nature.= 76: 217. Jl. 4. ’07. 1190w.
=Technical Literature.= 2: 582. D. ’07. 160w.
=Seymour, Frederick H. A.= Saunterings in Spain. **$3. Dutton.
7–35147.
The “saunterings” include Barcelona, Madrid, Toledo, Cordova, Seville, and Granada. “The introduction giving an historical sketch of the Moorish occupation of Spain is a noteworthy tribute to remarkable people who shed light upon European art and science at a time when Europe was ‘in that slough of despond which we term “the dark ages.”’” (Sat. R.) “The book is essentially for the journey and not the fireside.” (Nation.)
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“The historical sketch is good and concise, the description commonplace, superficial and too personal.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 72. Mr. ’07.
“[The reader] should guard himself against too implicit an acceptance of all the dicta it contains. A spirit of recklessness may be found at work at various points in the main narrative.”
− + =Ath.= 1907, 1: 193. F. 16. 980w.
“The book is more deeply laden with useful knowledge than most, the studies of the art galleries in Spain being particularly close and appreciative.” Wallace Rice.
+ =Dial.= 41: 392. D. 1, ’06. 210w.
“The illustrations are so fine that they almost make up for the shortcomings of the text.”
+ − =Ind.= 62: 1357. Je. 6, ’07. 170w.
“Perhaps the most interesting chapters of the book, in which there is not one dull page, are those on the Alhambra.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 30: 278. Ja. ’07. 280w.
“Mr. Seymour ... is not a saunterer at all, but the cicerone, with much of the dryness and ponderosity of the guild, but informing, and if not so suggestive as Mr. Williams, far more valuable as a guide.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 39. Ja. 10, ’07. 1040w.
=Sat. R.= 102: sup. 10. O. 13, ’06. 270w.
=Seymour, Frederick H. A.= Siena and her artists. *$1.50. Jacobs.
7–38017.
A dissertation upon Sienese art as exemplified in her architecture, sculpture and painting. “General Seymour does not write as a specialist. He eschews technical language, and contents himself with setting down in simple terms the impressions produced upon him by study of the works of Duccio di Buoninsegna, the Lorenzetti, Taddeo di Bartolo, and their disciples and successors. It is interesting to note, from the records of these impressions, how strong an appeal to the modern mind may be made by an art which has deliberately adhered to a set of rigid conventions, if only it possesses the fundamental qualities of beauty and sincerity.” (Ath.)
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“A book for the amateur—yes! Unimportant, but redeemed by enthusiasm and headlong interest in the subject.”
+ − =Acad.= 72: 673. Je. 15, ’07. 310w.
“The unpretending volume before us contains nothing for the scholar or the art-critic, but it will be welcome to the ordinary traveller visiting Siena for the first time, and desiring counsel as to how he may most profitably spend his leisure there.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 412. O. 5. 440w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 690. O. 26, ’07. 60w.
“Another book which will be useful to the visitor to Italy who wishes for criticisms of pictures not too learned or technical.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1007. Je. 27, ’07. 30w.
=Seymour, Thomas Day.= Life in the Homeric age. *$4. Macmillan.
7–36949.
Based upon a study of the Homeric poems, this book deals with the life and times as reflected in the poet’s language. Hence it is philological rather than archaeological. The importance of the undertaking to the modern reader lies in the fact that Homer’s picture of the life of his age is the earliest account extant of the culture from which our own is a true lineal descendant. The cosmography and geography of the country are studied, the family, education, dress, food, slavery, trade, sea life and ships, agriculture, animals, worship, arms and war.
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“Very learned and extremely readable book, which we heartily recommend both to scholars and to the general reader.” R. T. Tyrrell.
+ + − =Acad.= 73: 181. N. 30, ’07. 1250w.
“Is an admirable addition to a scholar’s bookshelves. There is little doubt that this work is exhaustive and accurate enough to satisfy all but the keenest departmental specialists.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 510. O. 26. 1530w.
“The work seems too detailed for a younger student, while for the advanced worker it ought to embody more results from archaeology and the increasingly important science of anthropology. Again, one is compelled to notice a regrettable lack of proportion, a habit of repetition that might be called otiose if one did not know the over-conscientious author, and a constant recurrence of a negative method elucidation.” F. B. R. Hellems.
+ − =Dial.= 43: 311. N. 16, ’07. 3100w.
“No one can doubt that it is definitive.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1059. O. 31, ’07. 680w.
“A more complete guide to the knowledge of life’s externals in the Homeric age we have never met with.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 696. N. 9, ’07. 320w.
“There is all through a certain lack of precision of view in this book.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 6: 326. O. 25, ’07. 420w.
“The present volume will be an indispensable work of reference in public and college libraries and a handsome ornament to private collections. But we fear that it is too bulky and too expensive for the students who need it in their reading of Homer.”
+ + − =Nation.= 85: 472. N. 21, ’07. 2220w.
“In a broad sense one might call this work of opulent learning a sociological commentary upon the Bible of ancient Greece.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 357. O. 19, ’07. 290w.
=Shackleton, Robert, and Shackleton, Mrs. Elizabeth.= Quest of the colonial. **$2.40. Century.
7–30414.
While the chapters of this book are the personal experiences of two enthusiastic homemakers in quest of the useful, beautiful and interesting articles of colonial furniture and bric-a-brac, they afford generous information concerning colonial furniture of every kind, and offer helpful suggestions in the matter of selection.
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“It contains a great deal of definite and accurately stated information for the amateur collector, besides many anecdotes calculated to quicken his enthusiasm and arouse his envy and admiration.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 383. D. 1, ’07. 310w.
“It is rare that one finds a book that deals so accurately with facts pertaining to the furnishing of our forefathers and at the same time uses dry data with sufficient cunning to make a charming readable tale.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 35: 696. N. 9, ’07. 170w.
=Lit. D.= 35: 919. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“No one who has the slightest love of the old could fail to gain sincere pleasure from the reading of this book.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 359. O. 19, ’07. 120w.
=Shakespeare, William.= Complete dramatic and poetic works; ed. from the text of the early quartos and the first folio by William A. Neilson. $3. Houghton.
6–38336.
Uniform with “Cambridge poets,” this volume shares with the others of the series the excellencies of book making. Professor Neilson’s “radical procedure in frankly adopting a modern punctuation will probably please readers, if they notice it, and raise questions among scholars. His rearrangement of the plays according to chronology within the three well-recognized divisions of comedies, histories, and tragedies, by which ‘Tempest’ appears as the seventeenth instead of the first play, is likely to give qualms to readers rather than to scholars. Both innovations seem to me to be worth trying, and it is needless to approve the small amount of textual apparatus in such an edition and the consequent saving of space for a good glossary.” (Forum.)
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“We recommend it most cordially to the scholar, the student, and the general reader.”
+ =Cath. World.= 85: 262. My. ’07. 170w.
“Calls for a word of hearty praise.”
+ + =Dial.= 42: 20. Ja. 1, ’07. 60w.
“Professor Neilson ... has done a real service in his one volume of Shakespeare. His critical introduction and textual notes are very admirable.”
+ + =Educ. R.= 34: 210. S. ’07. 50w.
“No more attractive single-volume edition exists.” W. P. Trent.
+ + + =Forum.= 38: 379. Ja. ’07. 480w.
+ + + =Ind.= 62: 622. Mr. 14, ’07. 270w.
+ + + =Lit. D.= 34: 264. F. 16, ’07. 190w.
“This new edition by Prof. Neilson is easily the best single-volume edition that has yet been published.”
+ + + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 41. Ja. 26, ’07. 1340w.
“In every way the volume is suited for the use of the general reader and for a place on his library shelf.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 84: 1084. D. 29, ’06. 210w.
“These textual variations are the merest trifles after all, and detract nothing from the general merit of the book, which is unquestionably the best one-volume edition of Shakespeare that has appeared—so nearly perfect in its way indeed, that its supremacy is not likely to be disputed for many a year.” Wm. J. Rolfe.
+ + − =Putnam’s.= 2: 723. S. ’07. 840w.
=Shakespeare, William.= First folio Shakespeare; ed. with notes, introd. glossary, list of variorum readings, and selected criticisms, by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke, ea. 75c. Crowell.
—As you like it.
6–42340.
This volume shares with the volumes that have gone before the excellencies of the carefully compiled editorial matter.
—Henry the fifth.
6–45068.
The characteristic features of this entire series are found in this volume.
—Much ado about nothing.
7–11050.
Uniform with the “First folio edition,” and the twelfth to be issued. It is supplied with the full editorial equipment characteristic of the edition.
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“The reading public cannot be too grateful to the editors and publishers of this Shakespeare for bringing within their easy reach that which has hitherto been accessible only to millionaires and scholars.”
+ + =Acad.= 71: 605. D. 15, ’06. 220w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 25. Ja. ’07.
“Altogether the editors deserve to be warmly complimented on the thoroughness of their work, which must have cost them abundant time and labour.”
+ + =Ath.= 1906, 2: 798. D. 22. 630w.
+ + =Nation.= 83: 533. D. 20. ’06. 50w.
“There is nothing better at hand for the genuine student of Shakespeare and the development of the English language.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 96. F. 16, ’07. 340w.
“We have no hesitation in saying that this is as great a help to Shakespearean study as has been produced for many years.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 831. N. 24, ’06. 190w.
=Shakespeare, William.= Tragedie of Antonie and Cleopatra; ed. by Horace H. Furness. *$4. Lippincott.
7–28476.
“Antonie and Cleopatra” complete with the unsparing equipment of the “Variorum edition.”
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“Differences of opinion with regard to the soundness of Dr. Furness’s original contributions, do not affect the high value to be placed upon the main purpose of his work and the splendid manner in which he continues to carry it out.”
+ + + =Nation.= 85: 356. O. 17. ’07. 1100w.
“To exactness and fullness of knowledge the editor of the ‘Variorum edition’ has added the wisdom which is born of a great love.”
+ + + =Outlook.= 87: 329. O. 19, ’07. 620w.
+ + + =R. of Rs.= 36: 640. N. ’07. 80w.
+ + + =Spec.= 99: 535. O. 12, ’07. 180w.
=Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate.= From old fields: poems of the civil war. **$3. Houghton.
6–39442.
A collection of poems chiefly about civil war topics.
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“In a way, Mr. Shaler was the Crabbe of the battlefield. He saw the sordid, tragic commonplaces of war with an undeluded eye, and portrayed them with a firm and vivid pen.”
+ + − =Nation.= 84: 34. Ja. 10, ’07. 290w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 253. F. ’07. 60w.
=Shaler, Mrs. Sophia Penn Page.= Masters of fate; the power of the will. **$1.50. Duffield.
6–32864.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 72. Mr. ’07. S.
=Shand, Alexander Innes.= Soldiers of fortune in camp and court. **$3. Dutton.
Phases of history “as it was built up by personal gallantry.” The author begins with the mediaeval Condottieri and ends with the Indian adventurers, the modern representatives of the Condottieri.
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“We have said that this is an interesting book, and apparently Mr. Shand, to judge by his reticence in the matter of dates and stern exclusion of references, does not mean it to be more than simply interesting. That, however, should not preclude a little care in the writing. The style, on the whole, is not unattractive, but it is sometimes careless.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 9. O. 12, ’07. 940w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 671. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“‘Soldiers of fortune’ is very different from the kind of sham history we are often given under such a title. It is not tawdry or sensational; the author observes it as a point of honour with himself never to make what seems to him the truth lopsided in order that it may be more exciting.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 482. O. 5, ’07. 1440w.
* =Shaw, Albert.= Outlook for the average man. **$1.25. Macmillan.
In five chapters, as follows, Dr. Shaw discusses the relation of the average man to present social, economic, and political conditions in the United States. The average man under changing economic conditions, Present economic problems, Our legacy from a century of pioneers, The business career and the community and Jefferson’s doctrines under new tests.
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=N. Y. Times.= 12: 668. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 762. N. 30. ’07. 180w.
=Shaw, Albert.= Political problems of American development. (Columbia university lectures George Blumenthal foundation, 1907.) *$1.50. Macmillan.
7–22104.
“The book as a whole is a study of national development, dealing not with the questions of constitutional law that vexed the minds of the fathers, but with the practical difficulties that democracy has continuously encountered in its attempt to realize the national ideals in the American environment. Immigration and race questions, problems relating to our public lands, party machinery, the regulation of the railroads and the great industrial trusts, the tariff, the currency, foreign policy, and territorial expansion are all discussed from the point of view of the journalist and man of affairs.”—R. of Rs.
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“The book is so valuable as to deserve a second edition.”
+ + =Ind.= 63: 1372. D. 5, ’07. 620w.
“We cannot feel that this work will add to Mr. Shaw’s reputation either as a writer or as a student of American problems. The whole volume smacks of the haste of journalism. It is frequently repetitious, and is not lacking in that dogmatic finality of opinion which is a pitfall for all editors.”
− =Nation.= 85: 425. N. 7, ’07. 750w.
“His views in their entirety are not always ours. But we may say that in no instance does he fail to illumine his subject for the great general public to whom he addresses himself; and that his little volume is an admirable textbook for the use of those who would pursue intelligently and conscientiously the schooling that makes for an efficient and triumphant democracy.”
+ + − =Outlook.= 87: 540. N. 9, ’07. 1040w.
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 230. N. ’07. 750w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 383. S. ’07. 180w.
=Shaw, George Bernard.= Dramatic opinions and essays; containing as well A word on the Dramatic opinions and essays of G. Bernard Shaw, by James Huneker. 2v. **$2.50. Brentano’s.
6–39443.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“A combination of acute and searching criticism of modern plays and players with unlimited flippancy and egotism. Deliciously entertaining, if not altogether profitable, reading; for those familiar with the plays and the actors.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 72. Mr. ’07.
“Mr. Shaw is at his sanest in the dramatic criticisms contributed weekly to the ‘Saturday review.’” H. W. Boynton.
+ =Atlan.= 99: 553. Ap. ’07. 5910w.
=Current Literature.= 42: 71. Ja. ’07. 2050w.
“They made sparkling reading in those days, but that is hardly sufficient to justify the preservation of such current chroniclings in permanent form.”
+ − =Dial.= 42: 13. Ja. 1, ’07. 120w.
“If there is anyone surviving at this time of day who thinks Mr. Shaw merely a crank or merely a ‘farceur’, these collected dramatic criticisms ought to open his eyes. They are, on the whole, tremendously earnest and absolutely sane; the work of a man who obviously longs to leave not only the stage, but the world, better than he found it.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 117. Ap. 12, ’07. 2000w.
+ =Outlook.= 84: 1082. D. 29, ’06. 280w.
“These criticisms of Mr. Shaw’s have had, and we believe are likely to have, a wholesome effect upon the contemporary stage, but whether such be the case or no, they must at least be allowed this great virtue—they are tremendously entertaining.” Horatio S. Krans.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 1: 754. Mr. ’07. 620w.
“Mr. Huneker has chosen the criticisms for republication, and written an heroic, gunnerlike preface, full of explosions and boomings, which is, perhaps, suitable to so gallant an occasion.”
− =Spec.= 98: 567. Ap. 13, ’07. 1780w.
=Shaw, George Bernard.= John Bull’s other island and Major Barbara. **$1.50. Brentano’s.
7–21528.
There are three plays included in this group: John Bull’s other island, How he lied to her husband, and Major Barbara. There are the usual characteristic prefaces, and for an introduction he makes use of his “First aid to critics.”
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“Both ‘John Bull’s other island’ and ‘Major Barbara’ are ill put together. They share with the ‘Doctor’s dilemma’ the defect of straggling on after the play is really at an end.” St. J. H.
− =Acad.= 72: 621. Je. 29, ’07. 1120w.
“It is only by the ideas which they embody that Mr. Shaw’s stage-works will live. Should those ideas ever become commonplaces—an unlikely contingency!—his plays possess, apart from their humour and wit, no quality which can save them from the doom of oblivion. They contain but the smallest amount of story, no plot worth speaking of, and very little emotional stress or conflict; any catastrophe they set forth is of a strictly intellectual sort.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 107. Jl. 27. 1500w.
“The latest is the most interesting volume of Brentano’s new edition of Shaw, because none of the three plays in it has appeared in print before and only one of them has been played often enough in this country for many people to see it.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 879. O. 10, ’07. 860w.
“If only to find the secret that is in Mr. Shaw’s heart, his prefaces are to be read. There are the plays to be read, as well—two of them as good plays as Mr. Shaw has ever done, and all three as amusing and stimulating in print as on the stage, all three brilliantly successful devices for compelling you to swallow the powder of the ‘paper-apostle’ in the jam of the ‘artist-magician.’”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 197. Je. 21, ’07. 1890w.
“As a study of actual social conditions, or as drama, [Major Barbara] is quite worthless, being wholly unreasonable and packed, as is the writer’s habit, with all kinds of false and reckless generalizations, cynical extravagancies, and perverse misrepresentations; but it is, nevertheless, highly entertaining in its witty, bumptious, paradoxical and wholly irresponsible fashion.”
− + =Nation.= 84: 19. Jl. 4, ’07. 350w.
“The present writer is considering not Mr. Shaw the playwright, but Mr. Shaw, the clairvoyant, the acute observer and the critic of things as they are in the year of grace, 1907, the philosopher, if you will, of the open eye and mind. He is, as a matter of fact, the very inspiration of critics whether of literature or of life, for he is inexhaustively suggestive because he is marvelously perceiving.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 437. Jl. 13, ’07. 2370w.
“In these two more substantial plays, as always, Mr. Shaw makes it plainer than ever, as has already been said, that he is first the determined moralist, the servant of his profoundly passionate convictions; then the architect of what happens to be their vehicle: in this case, satiric and imaginative drama. But scarcely less notable is the demonstration which is here furnished of that other inconvenient and embarrassing fact which Mr. Shaw is at such elaborate pains, when he is on his guard, to conceal: the fact that he is, ‘au fond’ and incurably a poet.” Lawrence Gilman.
+ =No. Am.= 186: 284. O. ’07. 2000w.
“Not even Mr. Bernard Shaw’s wit and paradox can make his play about Ireland ... altogether easy reading.”
− + =Outlook.= 86: 610. Jl. 20, ’07. 40w.
“The three plays show Mr. Shaw’s characteristic genius.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 383. S. ’07. 100w.
=Sheedy, Rev. Morgan M.= Briefs for our times. **$1. Whittaker.
6–31412.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The literary quality of the book is very good indeed; and, while the author does not pretend to original thinking, he has the knack of putting ancient truth in a fresh and pleasing, as well as convincing, manner.”
+ =Cath. World.= 84: 548. Ja. ’07. 190w.
=Sheehan, Rev. Patrick Augustine.= Early essays and lectures. *$1.60. Longmans.
7–11584.
A collection of essays “disinterred” from the magazines in which they appeared during the past twenty-five years. In them Father Sheehan discusses such men as Emerson, Arnold and Aubrey De Vere, and such subjects as, The German universities, The German and Gaelic muses, and Irish youth and high ideals.
* * * * *
“In many places, the essays would have been improved by the application of the pruning knife.... Many of the essays would have gained a great deal by compression; in very few instances will one find a passage that deserves a place alongside almost any paragraph that might be taken at random from ‘Under the cedars and the stars.’”
+ − =Cath. World.= 84: 414. D. ’06. 220w.
=Dial.= 42: 84. F. 1, ’07. 80w.
+ =Spec.= 97: 792. N. 17. ’06. 350w.
=Shelley, Henry C.= John Harvard and his times, il. **$2. Little.
7–34809.
The facts concerning the life of John Harvard have been so few and the few so hard to obtain that no volume has been written before on the “young minister whose generosity had such important influence on the beginnings of education in America.” The sketch shows what were the environment and early influence in his Stratford-on-Avon home, and also gives what is known of his parentage. Then follow chapters on The Harvard circle, Cambridge, Last years in England; The new world and The praise of John Harvard.
* * * * *
“Unfortunately, the author can not tell us what sort of a man John Harvard was. But he tells very cleverly the kind of man John Harvard might have been.” Arthur M. Chase.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 413. D. ’07. 530w.
“Mr. Shelley shows himself accurate and unbiased in stating his slender store of absolutely determined facts, and singularly clever in piecing them together and eking them out with ingenious possibilities.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 382. D. 1, ’07. 290w.
“The volume contains, of course, much valuable material relating to the founding of Harvard college, but besides that it furnishes an interesting picture of the Massachusetts colony as it was during the first twenty years of its history.”
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 917, D. 14, ’07. 180w.
“In general we think Mr. Shelley’s inferences from the data at hand entirely reasonable; and when the picture is unfortunately obscure he shows skill in throwing upon it side-lights.”
+ =Nation.= 85: 475. N. 21, ’97. 1450w.
“Mr. Shelley has brought to light much valuable material relating to Harvard, his parentage, his times, and friends.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
“Mr. Shelley is entitled to the honor due a pioneer and to the satisfaction of feeling that he has produced a book interesting in itself and bearing the promise of fruitful results.” Elisabeth L. Cary.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 679. O. 26, ’07. 1600w.
“It is no detraction from the supplementary value and interest of Mr. Shelley’s work if we recognize at once that his is a secondary book.” Ripley Hitchcock.
+ =No. Am.= 186: 611. D. ’07. 1830w.
“As the life of John Harvard it can only be described as conjectural biography carried to the nth degree. Its sole distinction is its attractive reconstitution of the environment in which John Harvard was brought up, and the people he possibly knew.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 612. N. 23, ’07. 300w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 36: 755. D. ’07. 50w.
+ =Spec.= 99: 718. N. 9, ’07. 250w.
=Shelley, Henry C.= Literary by-paths in old England; il. **$3. Little.
6–34854.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 73. Mr. ’07.
“Mr. Shelley is in many respects quite the ideal guide, unassuming, sympathetic, and exceedingly well informed. He refreshes vague memories and supplies fresh clues at almost every turn, and his is exactly the book one would like to take along on a pilgrimage to poetic shrines, but—and it is a serious but—for the clumsy proportions and gross material weight of the volume.” Harriet Waters Preston.
+ − =Atlan.= 99: 420. Mr. ’07. 390w.
+ =Ind.= 62: 677. Mr. 21, ’07. 200w.
=R. of Rs.= 35: 112. Ja. ’07. 70w.
=Shelton, Louise.= Seasons in a flower garden: a handbook of information and instruction for the amateur. **$1. Scribner.
6–19004.
(2d ed. rev. and enl.
7–18184.)
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 14. Ja. ’07. S.
* =Shepard, William Kent.= Problems in strength of materials. *$1.25. Ginn.
7–30998.
“A collection of nearly 600 specific problems or exercises in the strength of materials ... [which] confines itself strictly to the statement of problems, and with one exception, eight pages on the design of riveted joints, avoids explanatory interjections.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“In the absence of either explanation or cautionary reference, the student is likely to go astray, even when the book is being administered by a teacher. Regardless of this, however, we welcome the appearance of such a collection of problems.”
+ + − =Engin. N.= 58: 537. N. 14, ’07. 620w.
=Technical Literature.= 2: 584. D. ’07. 100w.
=Shepherd, Henry Elliot.= Life of Robert Edward Lee. $2. Neale.
6–46779.
Not so much a biography as a characterization. The conditions under which Lee lived and worked and the results he achieved are outlined, as well as his ideals, motives, genius and character. The author says “It is my distinctive purpose to exhibit the life of our hero in those critical and all-pervading relations which constitute the abiding test of true greatness.”
=Sheppard, Alfred Tresidder.= Running horse inn. †$1.50. Lippincott.
7–18182.
George Kennett, a soldier in the Peninsular campaign, returns to Running Horse inn in a little town in the south of England upon the day that his brother, believing him dead, weds the girl who had promised to wait for him. At first the returned soldier succeeds fairly well in accepting the inevitable, but when financial hardships come, and his old love for Bess masters him, he turns scoundrel, and brings misery to his brother’s home. He pays the penalty for the guilt which he was morally responsible for, although he is innocent technically of the charge that hangs him.
* * * * *
“A really fine historical novel.”
+ =Acad.= 71: 479. N. 10, ’06. 190w.
“His military experiences show more power than any other portion of the book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1906, 2: 509. O. 27. 120w.
“The tender character studies of rural English folk, the captain’s yarns, the homely life within the Inn, and the eternal scenery along the downs, and, above all, the solemn tread with which all events seem to march toward the final, inevitable tragedy gives the book power.”
+ =Ind.= 63: 572. S. 5, ’07. 140w.
“Has set himself a difficult task and if he has not fully succeeded it is fair to recognize the ambition.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 5: 369. N. 2, ’06. 250w.
“The book shows a good measure of careful preparation. On the whole, interest is fairly well maintained.”
+ − =Nation.= 84: 16. Jl. 4, ’07. 220w.
“The tale is dramatic and has some thrilling situations.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 385. Je. 15, ’07. 140w.
“The plot is too weak to support itself thru 400 pages, although the best part of it is near the close.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 12: 540. S. 7, ’07. 80w.
“The design is ambitious, the details carefully wrought, but Mr. Sheppard seems to us to have essayed, with inadequate equipment, a theme which would have suited Mr. Thomas Hardy in his earlier manner.”
− + =Sat. R.= 103: 22. Ja. 5, ’07. 180w.
“It would be difficult to overpraise the way in which the atmosphere of impending calamity is sustained, or the subtlety with which the growing degradation of the chief figure is traced. The mere writing is of the best, and there are passages of high imaginative beauty.”
+ + =Spec.= 97: 731. N. 10, ’06. 350w.
=Sheppard, S. E. and Mees, C. E. Kenneth.= Investigations on the theory of the photographic process. *$1.75. Longmans.
A theoretical rather than practical work whose subjects are dealt with from the point of view of what is now understood as physical chemistry and are described in the language of that branch of science.
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“This volume will find a place, which it will worthily fill, in the libraries of all who are interested in the scientific aspects of photography.” C. J.
+ + =Nature.= 76: 468. S. 5, ’07. 700w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 333. My. 25, ’07. 70w.
=Sherard, Robert Harborough.= Twenty years in Paris; being some recollections of a literary life; 2d ed. il. *$4. Jacobs.
6–18833.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 85. Mr. ’07.
=Sheridan, Richard Brinsley.= Major dramas of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The rivals, The school for scandal, The critic; ed. with introd. and notes by George Henry Nettleton. (Athenaeum press ser.) *90c. Ginn.
6–43927.
A school edition with abundant editorial matter.
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“He succeeds, not only in giving all the information needed by beginners with sterling fulness and accuracy, but in adding a great deal that will interest those who have already a good working knowledge of the plays.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 112. F. 2, ’07. 1310w.
“Is by far the most pretentious attempt yet made to edit these masterpieces of English comedy. It is to be regretted that the apparatus is more evident than the criticism. The several sections in which Professor Nettleton discusses Sheridan’s position in the English drama display no real insight into the art of dramaturgy.” Brander Matthews.
− + =Educ. R.= 33: 318. Mr. ’07. 1200w.
“A compact and careful piece of work, containing a considerable amount of useful information in small compass.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 251. Mr. 14, ’07. 310w.
“We do not know any other book on Sheridan which crowds so much information into so small a compass.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 57. F. 2, ’07. 130w.
“Admirers of Sheridan’s [plays] may now have their favorites printed (for the first time in America) from the authentic text of Sheridan’s plays taken from the original manuscripts and edited (for the first time anywhere) with complete annotation.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ + =School R.= 15: 625. O. ’07. 350w.
=Sheridan, Richard Brinsley B.= Rivals; with an introduction by Brander Matthews. il. $2.50. Crowell.
7–24460.
A de luxe edition illustrated by a series of five drawings, the work of Mr. O’Malley, which are reproduced in full-page photogravures. The drawings, the introduction by Brander Matthews and the excellent workmanship of the book make it a choice holiday offering.
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“Mr. Power O’Malley has illustrated the play for the present edition in a fashion to emphasize both its old-time quaintness and its sparkling humor.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 381. D. 1, ’07. 110w.
“The notes are of little value.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 451. N. 14, ’07. 110w.
=Sheridan, Wilbur Fletcher.= Life of Isaac Wilson Joyce. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–20972.
A biography of Bishop Joyce of the Methodist Episcopal church which reveals him as preeminently the man of action, a man “too busy making history to record it.” His missionary zeal at home and in foreign fields sounds the strongest note in the sketch.
=Sherman, Ellen Burns.= Words to the wise—and others. **$1.50. Holt.
7–36126.
A dozen delightful essays upon social and literary subjects such as: The root and foliage of style, Our kin and others, A plea for the naturalization of ghosts, Ruskin, Modern letter-writing, and Our comédie humaine. In each we find a discriminating taste for the best works of God and man.
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+ =Outlook.= 87: 746. N. 30, ’07. 130w.
=Sherring, Charles A.= Western Tibet and the British border land. *$6. Longmans.
7–19489.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“It comes too late, and it is far too bulky.”
− + =Acad.= 72: 13. Ja. 5, ’07. 480w.
“The best parts of Mr. Sherring’s volume are the chapters devoted to the legends and myths of the natives especially the Bhotia tribes of the frontier, and to the quaint customs and manners of the British borderland.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 43. Ja. 16, ’07. 580w.
“The present volume is one of the most valuable works that we have seen upon the subject.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 594. Ap. 13, ’07. 410w.
“Mr. Sherring is much to be congratulated upon the way in which he has acquitted himself of his task.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 234. Jl. 26, ’07. 1030w.
“Nor is there anything new to interest the ethnologist, naturalist, botanist, geologist or sportsman. Altogether it is unfortunate that the author has missed this unique opportunity of making important additions to our knowledge of this little explored land. The best things in the book are the photographs of the peaks and passes, most of which are supplied by Dr. T. G. Longstaff.”
− + =Sat. R.= 102: 776. D. 22, ’06. 1620w.
=Sherrington, Charles Scott.= Integrative action of the nervous system. **$3.50. Scribner.
6–38912.
“The aim of this book, as its title indicates, is to set forth in detail the manner in which the nervous system serves to bring together in united action the various parts of the animal organism.... The whole trend of the book, though it is primarily physiological, is a strong argument for some sort of ‘motor theory’ of consciousness.... The book is accompanied by an exhaustive bibliography, and the author supports each step in his argument by frequent reference to his own extensive and minute experiments as well as to the results found by other investigators. Numerous reproductions of myograph curves, etc., illustrate the text.”—J. Philos.
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Reviewed by F. N. Freeman.
=J. Philos.= 4: 301. My. 23, ’07. 1750w.
“We have in this book the most valuable contribution to the comprehension of the functions of the nervous system that has appeared up to the present time, not only from the records of the experiments quoted, but also from the logical and orderly way in which the due inferences from the experiments are put forward, and the volume stands out as a landmark in our knowledge of the subject.”
+ + − =Nature.= 76: 122. Je. 6, ’07. 710w.
* =Sherwood, Margaret Pollock.= Princess Pourquoi. †$1.50. Houghton.
7–31285.
The five tales in this volume are wonderstory fables. “The ‘Princess Pourquoi’ represents, let us say, the modern spirit of feminine inquiry in its dignified aspect; ‘The princess and the microbe’ and ‘The seven studious sisters’ represents the same spirit in an amusing light; and ‘The clever necromancer,’ its pathetic side. ‘The gentle robber’ is a more pungent satire upon the theoretical and the actual attitude of the world toward greed and dishonesty on a large scale.” (Nation.)
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=Nation.= 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 260w.
“They are very gracefully written, and the effect of each is something like that of an old piece of richly colored embroidery.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 649. O. 19, ’07. 100w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
=Shoemaker, Blanche.= Woven of dreams. **$1.25. Lane.
7–10279.
Under the four headings, Sonnets, Youth’s journey, Gathered petals, and Woven of dreams, are gathered more than a hundred exquisite verses, full of the joy of life and the depths of its emotions.
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“The work is uneven and weak lines mar otherwise good sonnets. There is, too, no allusiveness or elusiveness. The author forgets that poetry is the language of suggestion and tumbles everything out before us with a forwardness that is occasionally unpleasant.” Christian Gauss.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 492. Ag. 10, ’07. 220w.
=Shoemaker, Michael Myers.= Winged wheels in France. **$2.50. Putnam.
6–42912.
The “winged wheels” belong to a “great red touring car” in which the author made a trip through the Rhine valley to Switzerland. The snapshot method has been employed and there are no time exposures. The book is embellished with numerous reproductions of photographs.
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=A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 129. My. ’07.
“He is always interesting and entertaining in his books, but we prefer him when he travels at more leisure than the motor-car permits. The volume is pleasantly written and admirably illustrated.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 42: 373. Je. 16. ’07. 200w.
=Nation.= 84: 59. Ja. 17, ’07. 110w.
“The descriptions are graphic, and there is a wise avoidance of the geographical details.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 11: 899. D. 22, ’06. 360w.
“Mr. Shoemaker writes with sympathy, although his pages might well have been more picturesque and luminous considering his subject matter.”
+ − =Outlook.= 84: 1083. D. 29, ’06. 230w.
“A good bit of descriptive travel writing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 35: 109. Ja. ’07. 50w.
“It is a succession of rapid impressions, which seems to require eyes and a brain especially made for the purpose, if any fixed recollection is to be carried away. Yet these impressions are clear, in spite of their quickness and slightness.”
+ =Spec.= 98: 1013. Je. 29, ’07. 360w.
=Shorter, Dora Sigerson.= Through wintry terrors. $1.50. Cassell.
“A struggling clerk and his silly young wife, a vicious little poet, an old maid, and a few of the submerged—these are the characters in ‘Through wintry terrors.’” (Lond. Times.) The tragedy of a hasty marriage is enacted in which misunderstandings lead to separation, and this, for the wife, to the sober trouble of London’s darker side. “The simple story moves straight to its end through troubles very real and affecting, shaped by the hand of an artist and touched with the spirit of a poet.” (Lond. Times.)
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“The best that can be said for it is that no doubt it will yield a number of amiable persons a certain harmless enjoyment; the worst, that there is no reason why it should have been written at all.”
− =Acad.= 73: 194. N. 30, ’07. 230w.
“Mrs. Shorter’s characters are skillfully and sympathetically drawn.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 400. O. 5. 180w.
“[Only one] small blot on a story that within its little limits has the qualities of a work of art.”
+ + − =Lond. Times.= 6: 317. O. 18, ’07. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 654. O. 19, ’07. 50w.
=Shurter, Edwin DuBois=, ed. Masterpieces of modern oratory. *$l. Ginn.
7–3094.
A group of oratorical masterpieces which have been collected with a view of offering them to students as models for study.
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“Professor Shurter has made a good collection of orations, but he has committed the usual editor’s fault of presenting them incompletely.”
+ − =Educ. R.= 34: 209. S. ’07. 70w.
“Hence we are inclined to place a high value on a book which contains such well-chosen selections. Professor Shurter has done his task well.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ =School R.= 15: 554. S. ’07. 740w.
=Sichel, Walter Sydney.= Emma. Lady Hamilton from new and original sources and documents, together with an appendix of notes and new letters. *$5. Dodd.
6–1105.
The important contribution which Mr. Sichel has to make to the story of Lady Hamilton throws light chiefly upon her relations with Nelson.
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“Mr. Sichel’s book is more than a biography of this remarkable woman; it might almost be called a history. His net is all-embracing and his capacity for taking pains is great.”
+ =Acad.= 69: 1259. D. 2. ’05. 880w.
+ − =Ath.= 1905, 2: 540. O. 21. 180w.
“There can be no doubt that the author’s treatment of the whole subject is far more complete and authoritative than that of Mr. Cordy Jeaffreson.” W.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 21: 829. O. ’06. 300w.
“His volume is in large measure an apologia for Lady Hamilton, nearly always ingenious, but sometimes a little too ‘precious’ in tone and not very often quite convincing.”
+ − =Lond. Times.= 4: 356. O. 27, ’05. 1970w.
“His pages continuously shock the reader acquainted with the period, not by gross lapses, but by constant petty distortions that are too minute to criticise, and that may be best summed up as indicating a complete lack of the historical sense. It is essentially this that robs the book of value.”
+ =Nation.= 83: 376. N. 1, ’06. 780w.
“He has collected an enormous amount of valuable material, which he has arranged with picturesque effect, and a real dramatic sense. His style is careless and diffuse, and in the attempt to be forcible and expressive, he becomes strained and affected.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 100: 697. N. 25, ’05. 2260w.
“This is a marvel of industry, enthusiasm, and of special pleading.”
+ − =Spec.= 95: 978. D. 9, ’05. 2250w.
=Sidgwick, Arthur, and Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred (Mrs. Arthur Sidgwick).= Henry Sidgwick—a memoir. *$4. Macmillan.
6–18307.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“To all who can feel the attraction of a noble mind spending itself in the search for truth this biography must be of compelling interest.” F. Melian Stawell.
+ + =Int. J. Ethics.= 17: 241. Ja. ’07. 1360w.
“It gives a reflected picture of the intellectual changes in British thought from 1860–1900.” John Dewey.
+ + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 22: 133. Mr. ’07. 1100w.
=Sidgwick, Cecily Ullmann.= Kinsman. $1.50. Macmillan.
7–4161.
Another amusing comedy founded upon a case of mistaken identity. A young Englishman having closed out his interests in Australia comes to England to visit his kinsman, Colonel Blois, whose heir he is. Upon his arrival he meets his double who is a distant cousin and a worthless cockney clerk. The clerk, believing that his cousin has been drowned while in swimming, impersonates him to the confusion of his well-bred relatives and the joy of the reader. But in the end everything is straightened out and several love affairs come to a happy ending. The whole is amusing and the character of the weak, pleasure-loving clerk is exceedingly well drawn.
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“An entertaining book, one of the best Mrs. Sidgwick has written.”
+ + =Acad.= 72: 143. F. 9, ’07. 260w.
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 3: 110. Ap. ’07. ✠
“The story does not aim at a high standard of literary excellence, but is wholesome and mildly amusing.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 1: 221. F. 23. 140w.
“A distinctly amusing story, in which there is not for an instant any doubt which are the real hero and heroine.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 25: 89. Mr. ’07. 370w.
“An exceptionally bright and entertaining work of fiction.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 42: 377. Je. 16, ’07. 350w.
“Is just conventional enough, foolish enough, pleasant enough, to be an excellent thing of its kind.”
+ =Nation.= 84: 157. F. 14, ’07. 380w.
“An amusing, neatly built story, entertaining enough while it is being read and of no consequence afterward.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 120. F. 23, ’07. 310w.
“Is rather rampant in fun, but is in that way decidedly amusing.”
+ =Outlook.= 85: 479. F. 23, ’07. 70w.
=Sat. R.= 103: 465. Ap. 13, ’07. 230w.
“Capital specimen of fantastic comedy, bordering at times on farce, yet relieved in the case of Roger and Pamela with graceful and chivalrous sentiment.”
+ =Spec.= 97: 219. F. 9, ’07. 800w.
=Siegfried, Andre.= Race question in Canada. *$3. Appleton.
7–22822.
Canada in its social, economic and political aspects. “Part 1, considers the rival races and religions, and gives a full and instructive view of the influences exerted by Roman Catholicism and by Protestantism. In part 2, the political life of Canada is described in ten chapters. The balance of power and influence forms the topic of